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From: Slackware Security Team <security@slackware.com>
To: slackware-security@slackware.com
Subject: [slackware-security] libpng (SSA:2015-351-02)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 22:17:35 -0800 (PST)
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[slackware-security]  libpng (SSA:2015-351-02)

New libpng packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1,
and -current to fix a security issue.


Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog:
+--------------------------+
patches/packages/libpng-1.4.19-i486-1_slack14.1.txz:  Upgraded.
  Fixed an out-of-range read in png_check_keyword().  Thanks to Qixue Xiao.
  For more information, see:
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8540
  (* 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 13.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.0/patches/packages/libpng-1.2.56-i486-1_slack13.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.0/patches/packages/libpng-1.2.56-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware 13.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/patches/packages/libpng-1.4.19-i486-1_slack13.1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.1/patches/packages/libpng-1.4.19-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz

Updated package for Slackware 13.37:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.37/patches/packages/libpng-1.4.19-i486-1_slack13.37.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.37/patches/packages/libpng-1.4.19-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz

Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/libpng-1.4.19-i486-1_slack14.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/libpng-1.4.19-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/libpng-1.4.19-i486-1_slack14.1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/libpng-1.4.19-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/libpng-1.6.20-i586-1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libpng-1.6.20-x86_64-1.txz


MD5 signatures:
+-------------+

Slackware 13.0 package:
ed8ceb0c437b320bd91160587d92e004  libpng-1.2.56-i486-1_slack13.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 13.0 package:
30d8afb4ff38857e10aa18d8514d5b1e  libpng-1.2.56-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz

Slackware 13.1 package:
d117a60493f015ad58a3280168be17be  libpng-1.4.19-i486-1_slack13.1.txz

Slackware x86_64 13.1 package:
2803303bce5b00528656f01f4ee96f8d  libpng-1.4.19-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz

Slackware 13.37 package:
dea5d9bd54fb0ff4106e4ce9ae97b19d  libpng-1.4.19-i486-1_slack13.37.txz

Slackware x86_64 13.37 package:
d24fc053824fe8927590cec52cc8613d  libpng-1.4.19-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz

Slackware 14.0 package:
02ffbe6f6d3d7d95fc13448e50e19f98  libpng-1.4.19-i486-1_slack14.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
7d97fb73c97a9d06f3c379fe9e9ba689  libpng-1.4.19-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz

Slackware 14.1 package:
d8c14f7ac31bf20da7b5595f3d0aabe5  libpng-1.4.19-i486-1_slack14.1.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
f9ba7be319844c661e43bea5eb878b7a  libpng-1.4.19-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz

Slackware -current package:
6f2e6e7f5f8c3760a372cc9ae3130060  l/libpng-1.6.20-i586-1.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
8be8af75ec81e9463adf345c0bf48432  l/libpng-1.6.20-x86_64-1.txz


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

Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg libpng-1.4.19-i486-1_slack14.1.txz


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