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Slackwarearm-14.2 ChangeLog (2017-10-31)
Tue Oct 31 08:08:08 UTC 2017
Happy Halloween!
Packages
Upgraded
- patches/packages/NetworkManager-1.8.4-arm-1_slack14.2.txz
This update is provided to address issues with wifi scanning when using the
new wpa_supplicant with certain hardware drivers. If you're not having
problems, you don't need this update (but it probably won't hurt). - patches/packages/nano-2.8.7-arm-1_slack14.2.txz
- patches/packages/network-manager-applet-1.8.4-arm-1_slack14.2.txz
This package goes along with the optional NetworkManager update. - patches/packages/php-5.6.32-arm-1_slack14.2.txz
Several security bugs were fixed in this release:
Out of bounds read in timelib_meridian().
The arcfour encryption stream filter crashes PHP.
Applied upstream patch for PCRE (CVE-2016-1283).
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1283
(* Security fix *) - patches/packages/wget-1.19.2-arm-1_slack14.2.txz
This update fixes stack and heap overflows in in HTTP protocol handling.
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13089
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13090
(* Security fix *)
Rebuilt
- patches/packages/ppp-2.4.7-arm-2_slack14.2.txz
Added “pppsetup” which had been missing due to a build script bug.
Thanks to janas03 on LQ for the report.