Slackware: 2006-215 Critical: GnuPG Buffer Overflow Threat
slackware
August 3, 2006
New GnuPG packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues which could allow an attacker to crash gnupg and possibly overwrite m...
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnupg-1.4.5-i486-1_slack10.2.tgz: Upgraded to gnupg-1.4.5. From the gnupg-1.4.5 NEWS file: * Fixed 2 more possible memory allocation attacks. They are similar to the problem we fixed with 1.4.4. This bug can easily be be exploited for a DoS; remote code execution is not entirely impossible. (* Security fix *)
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Where Find New Packages
HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com?
Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site
for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading
from ftp.slackware.com.
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional 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 9.0:
Updated package for Slackware 9.1:
Updated package for Slackware 10.0:
Updated package for Slackware 10.1:
Updated package for Slackware 10.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 9.0 package:
f4d340a8cfc868c89e06d68b377e04d7 gnupg-1.4.5-i386-1_slack9.0.tgz
Slackware 9.1 package:
38e8e6cb501883f841a2b287de579b22 gnupg-1.4.5-i486-1_slack9.1.tgz
Slackware 10.0 package:
addbc70fb919cd61b81654e7059bf09f gnupg-1.4.5-i486-1_slack10.0.tgz
Slackware 10.1 package:
d143db889c2e3f81feb6d686fbc826ee gnupg-1.4.5-i486-1_slack10.1.tgz
Slackware 10.2 package:
955bfff71f59f53165f2df63f1b177f3 gnupg-1.4.5-i486-1_slack10.2.tgz
Slackware -current package:
dfb4e14c7fce72a8f240f05e75b09e8a gnupg-1.4.5-i486-1.tgz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg gnupg-1.4.5-i486-1_slack10.2.tgz
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