Slackware 12.1 Advisory - 2008-210-04 Critical Links Proxy Threat
slackware
July 29, 2008
New links packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix a security issue when using proxies
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/links-2.1-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz: Upgraded to links-2.1. Unspecified vulnerability in Links before 2.1, when "only proxies" is enabled, has unknown impact and attack vectors related to providing "URLs to external programs." For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3329 (* 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
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 11.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patches/packages/links-2.1-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 12.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/links-2.1-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 12.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/patches/packages/links-2.1-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 11.0 package:
938eccef79b71343d4e2f13ef4454450 links-2.1-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz
Slackware 12.0 package:
0207e7720de54574ef773a0e1f3a35e8 links-2.1-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Slackware 12.1 package:
343b0f3f6b33d1097faafa66c777651b links-2.1-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
Slackware -current package:
f137305bc4c7ea5fd0670760b10d653d links-2.1-i486-1.tgz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg links-2.1-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
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