Slackware 12.0: SSA:2008-098-02 Critical: bzip2 DoS Threat
slackware
April 7, 2008
New bzip2 packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix a DoS issue
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 12.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bzip2-1.0.5-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz: Upgraded to bzip2-1.0.5. Previous versions of bzip2 contained a buffer overread error that could cause applications linked to libbz2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1372 (* Security fix *)
Topics Covered
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
directly 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:
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 11.0:
Updated package for Slackware 12.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 8.1 package:
cddf69b03404779b6d23a7d7604198c5 bzip2-1.0.5-i386-1_slack8.1.tgz
Slackware 9.0 package:
5e153b9606326c3c61ac0018c1e460b6 bzip2-1.0.5-i386-1_slack9.0.tgz
Slackware 9.1 package:
066bb2e9c00387f3cbf134ba0e973766 bzip2-1.0.5-i486-1_slack9.1.tgz
Slackware 10.0 package:
09dc74761b62f3ed1a12df70e1191dc3 bzip2-1.0.5-i486-1_slack10.0.tgz
Slackware 10.1 package:
ab458a6b065dd2636623c01cdac41b21 bzip2-1.0.5-i486-1_slack10.1.tgz
Slackware 10.2 package:
9e082446dc0672f2f26b9200c1290ee3 bzip2-1.0.5-i486-1_slack10.2.tgz
Slackware 11.0 package:
730d057101b68e2f30f6f68b8eab25a8 bzip2-1.0.5-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz
Slackware 12.0 package:
b8bcf145b4f28e5db65fc8f5e2cc4fe6 bzip2-1.0.5-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Slackware -current package:
3611aec2aab0ca7168865bcfd8187046 bzip2-1.0.5-i486-1.tgz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg bzip2-1.0.5-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
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