OK - a Newbie trying to figure out how to patch my Slackware 14.1 glibc (2.17) with the patches at:

http://www.slackware.com/security/vi...curity.1260924

My question is simple: there are five patches listed. Is there any specific order to install them? top-first, bottom-last?

Thanks for any comments.

jrc

There are no 5 patches to apply but 5 already patched packages to be used to upgrade, as stated in the message you quoted. Just download the packages and install them as advised at the bottom of the message.

Just be careful to download the packages intended for your version and architecture (32-bit or 64-bit).

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Well Duh, again. Thanks Didier!
jrc

Hello again, this thread is almost a year old, I am the original poster. Thanks Didier for your helpful reply last year. It worked -at the time.
I've not upgraded/updated Slack 14.1-64 since those few attempts last year, which succeeded.
In the meantime I've installed Alien Bob's 'multilib' pkg to be able to use 32-bit apps. This seems to have worked.
No problems until trying to install the patches on the security list, back to June 2015. This is extremely confusing and I continue to hit the wall. I've tried to 'upgradepkg' as the instructions say, to no avail. I have *very carefully* checked the exact package name, making sure between number '1' and letter 'el', etc etc. I have 'upgraded slackpkg' gpg and itself. But, *ALL* I get is the repeated error message, "...no such file found" (paraphrased).
An example: I have on my system the Firefox package, "mozilla-firefox-31.7.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.1" (That is a 'zero' before 'esr').
Checking to make sure I am online, and have uncommented the ftp mirror at OSU, I type in, "upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-38.7.1esr-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz", *exactly* as specified in the message dated 17 March 2016, SSA:2016-077-01.
The result is "Cannot install [same filename as above - jrich] : file not found".
This also happens if I just try to download the file with 'slackpkg download [filename]'; result is "No packages match the pattern for download". (!!@#)
I'm now in pulling-hair mode. I've checked everything I could think of. Last year it worked. Now, no.
I do note that my installed pkg (name above) does not have the '.txz' appended, tried the process without, still fails.
I must be doing something simple incorrectly, but cannot find it.
Any comments would be very helpful. Thanks in advance,
jrich

I think you are confusing "upgradepkg" with "slackpkg upgrade"