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Slackware 15.0: gnupg2 Critical Security Fix SSA:2025-364-01

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Calendar Grey December 30, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
New gnupg2 packages for Slackware 15.0 address critical security issues and include recommended upgrades for users.
New gnupg2 packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues.

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnupg2-2.2.52-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. Please note that the new libgpg-error package is also required. For more information, see: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2025/q4/314 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68973 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68972 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical DoS security fix slackware gnupg2

Where Find 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://www.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/gnupg2-2.2.52-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/gnupg2-2.2.52-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/gnupg2-2.5.16-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/gnupg2-2.5.16-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: cba98b74a5dcd0cdb46e9cf8ed1a29ea gnupg2-2.2.52-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: c933bed28eedf0475377a69c4aa88067 gnupg2-2.2.52-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: ec1a291425c6206e20906cc1a254e192 n/gnupg2-2.5.16-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 7d386838bea25ba2197656e96225bc2c n/gnupg2-2.5.16-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg gnupg2-2.2.52-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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