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Slackware 8.1-10.1: SSA:2005-210-01 Critical: Telnet Client Exploit

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Calendar Grey July 30, 2005
Scroller Slackware
Essential security patch for Slackware tcpip components resolving telnet client vulnerabilities and potential execution threats.
New tcpip packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issues with the telnet client

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 10.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/tcpip-0.17-i486-31b.tgz: Patched two overflows in the telnet client that could allow the execution of arbitrary code when connected to a malicious telnet server. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CAN-2005-0468 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CAN-2005-0469 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical code execution Slackware telnet tcpip

Where Find New Packages

Updated package for Slackware 8.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/patches/packages/tcpip-0.17-i386-13b.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 9.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/patches/packages/tcpip-0.17-i386-16b.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 9.1:
Updated package for Slackware 10.0:
Updated package for Slackware 10.1:
Updated package for Slackware -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 8.1 package: 87b10fbcc7480a702549b4816417e189 tcpip-0.17-i386-13b.tgz
Slackware 9.0 package: f1ecdc9628575e00b12a33fd373deb4b tcpip-0.17-i386-16b.tgz
Slackware 9.1 package: 53b479b39b124c760e8a394d7a77202e tcpip-0.17-i486-24b.tgz
Slackware 10.0 package: 27bccd82765b690a1be50a0c380cfae4 tcpip-0.17-i486-29b.tgz
Slackware 10.1 package: 1372bff0f83f8147ae8adb84c10058ec tcpip-0.17-i486-31b.tgz
Slackware -current package: 6169015f5860175119d426c0170f040b tcpip-0.17-i486-33.tgz

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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical code execution Slackware telnet tcpip

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg tcpip-0.17-i486-33.tgz