Security updates: multilib and flash

November 2, 2016 / alienbob / 11 Comments

Multilib

A mountain of security fixes landed in Slackware this week. Many of these updated packages have a multilib equivalent, so today I have updated my multilib repository for Slackware releases 13.37 and newer.

New to multilib or don’t know what it is all about? Read the multilib article found in the Slackware Documentation Project. Download the new multilib packages here:

http://www.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/ (master site)
http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/multilib/ (my own mirror)
http://slackware.uk/people/alien/multilib/

Flash

At the same time, I have uploaded the latest package versions for the Flash Player plugin for Mozilla and Chromium browsers.
They are accompanied by Flash player security bulletin APSB16-36.

The updated plugin for the Chromium browser (chromium-pepperflash-plugin) has the version number 23.0.0.205 while the plugin for Mozilla browsers (flashplayer-plugin) is now at version 11.2.202.643 (both 64bit and 32bit versions).

Slackware packages for these Flash plugins are available for download & install in the following locations:

http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/ (master site)
http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/slackbuilds/ (my fast mirror)
http://slackware.uk/people/alien/slackbuilds/ (UK)

If you are using the slackpkg+ extension for slackpkg, then you just run “slackpkg update && slackpkg upgrade flash”. Alternatively, you can subscribe to my repository RSS feed to stay informed of any updates.

Have fun! Eric

Software

cve flash multilib security Slackware

10 Comments

Drew
November 2, 2016 at 00:48

Thank you!!

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Jen
November 2, 2016 at 01:44

Thanks for everything!

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Arthur
November 2, 2016 at 01:58

Eric,

Thanks for these updates!

Best regards!

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Eduardo
November 2, 2016 at 03:41

Thank you Eric!

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Skaendo
November 2, 2016 at 04:55

Thanks Eric!
Hope the new job is going well!

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alienbob (Post author)
November 2, 2016 at 09:41

Skaendo – I still have until December 1st to start my new job. The month of November will be spent on re-education on lost knowledge on Red Hat Linux that I need for the job.
And there will be time to work on new KDE packages. Chromium too, probably.

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gauchao
November 2, 2016 at 13:17

Thank you Eric! Thank you very much for your time – I imagine you have too many things to deal with right now and nevertheless you keep things updated here. Best wishes!

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kjhambrick
November 2, 2016 at 16:47

Thanks again Eric !

— kjh

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gegechris99
November 2, 2016 at 20:43

Thank you Eric for the flash plugin update.
Congratulations for your new job.

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Julio Cesar Gutierrez
November 3, 2016 at 22:23

After, upgrading to run Calibre:

ln -sf /usr/lib64/libxcb-sync.so /usr/lib64/libxcb-sync.so.0

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