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Slackware 10.2 gzip Critical Security Update: SSA:2006-262-01

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Calendar Grey September 19, 2006
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Fresh gzip updates released for various Slackware editions to address security vulnerabilities. Update immediately for enhanced safety.
New gzip packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix possible security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gzip-1.3.5-i486-1_slack10.2.tgz: Upgraded to gzip-1.3.5, and fixed a variety of bugs. Some of the bugs have possible security implications if gzip or its tools are fed a carefully constructed malicious archive. Most of these issues were recently discovered by Tavis Ormandy and the Google Security Team. Thanks to them, and also to the ALT and Owl developers for cleaning up the patch. For further details about the issues fixed, please see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-0758 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-0988 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-1228 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4334 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4335 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4336 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4337 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4338 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical package update Slackware gzip exploit risk

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 8.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/patches/packages/gzip-1.3.5-i386-1_slack8.1.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 9.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/patches/packages/gzip-1.3.5-i386-1_slack9.0.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 9.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.1/patches/packages/gzip-1.3.5-i486-1_slack9.1.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 10.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.0/patches/packages/gzip-1.3.5-i486-1...

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MD5 Signatures

Slackware 8.1 package: aeef90e23a6804468f31be9756e23aad gzip-1.3.5-i386-1_slack8.1.tgz
Slackware 9.0 package: f57f995a11e1c8060973c55cc4ebc4cf gzip-1.3.5-i386-1_slack9.0.tgz
Slackware 9.1 package: 8c5d5d5527770c9dcfdfa42cc5338b85 gzip-1.3.5-i486-1_slack9.1.tgz
Slackware 10.0 package: 53b8e1b5a247d865aeadc015320ca088 gzip-1.3.5-i486-1_slack10.0.tgz
Slackware 10.1 package: 1a925969b6b67a8d2cfdd34e732031fe gzip-1.3.5-i486-1_slack10.1.tgz
Slackware 10.2 package: 7c62e82c516d1171721b76ffa9624627 gzip-1.3.5-i486-1_slack10.2.tgz
Slackware -current package: 26f13bede7d49d939e36e414685bb4fb gzip-1.3.5-i486-1.tgz

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical package update Slackware gzip exploit risk

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg gzip-1.3.5-i486-1_slack10.2.tgz