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From: Slackware Security Team <security@slackware.com>
To: slackware-security@slackware.com
Subject: [slackware-security] libXfont2 (SSA:2026-218-01)
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 19:15:58 -0700 (PDT)
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[slackware-security]  libXfont2 (SSA:2026-218-01)

New libXfont2 packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to
fix security issues.


Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog:
+--------------------------+
patches/packages/libXfont2-2.0.9-i586-1_slack15.0.txz:  Upgraded.
  This update fixes security issues:
  Font Server Client encoding Out-Of-Bounds Read/Write.
  Font Server Client Cumulative Glyph Data Heap Buffer Overflow.
  For more information, see:
    https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2026-August/062274.html
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-59679
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-44950
  (* Security fix *)
+--------------------------+


Where to find the new packages:
+-----------------------------+

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project!  :-)

Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for
additional mirror sites near you.

Updated package for Slackware 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/libXfont2-2.0.9-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/libXfont2-2.0.9-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/x/libXfont2-2.0.9-i686-1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/x/libXfont2-2.0.9-x86_64-1.txz


MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 15.0 package:
1e8b85f3f6f8697ae28db3db45a8162c  libXfont2-2.0.9-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
6949f9f156c76b1ecc2a09205e790aad  libXfont2-2.0.9-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

Slackware -current package:
9986b7fa639e4b983d0e71bf5c3ef21f  x/libXfont2-2.0.9-i686-1.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
aafad9dbd4949d043a7019eb8cf85a2e  x/libXfont2-2.0.9-x86_64-1.txz


Installation instructions:
+------------------------+

Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg libXfont2-2.0.9-i586-1_slack15.0.txz


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