Slackware-current Updates; Bell Labs libsafe Merged
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We are pleased to announce that today version 1.3 of Bell Labs' libsafe
library was merged into the slackware-current "contrib" tree. libsafe
replaces several standard C library functions with versions that have been
hardened against buffer overflow exploits. As this type of exploit
comprises
many (perhaps most) of the security vulnerabilities that are discovered
these
days, and as libsafe is transparently used by most programs throughout the
system, its inclusion greatly increases system security with minimal
impact on
the user.
Please see Bell's libsafe web page for more details:
http://www.bell-labs.com/org/11356/libsafe.html
The slackware-current ChangeLog also has more slackware-specific
information,
as does the libsafe.txt file in the /contrib directory.
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-current/ChangeLog.txt
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-current/contrib/libsafe.txt
Other updates to Slackware-current in the past week include:
- GNU grep 2.4.2
- GNU emacs 20.6
- teTex 1.0.7 and teTeX-texmf 1.0.2
- gpm 1.19.2
- XFree86 4.0 added to /contrib
- modutils (bug fix for the install script)
- sc 7.2
Please see the ChangeLog for details:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com:/slackware/slackware-current/ChangeLog.txt
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