Slackware 12.1: SSA:2008-241-01 Critical Risk: Amarok Local Threat Exploit
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August 29, 2008
New Amarok packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/amarok-1.4.10-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz: Upgraded to amarok-1.4.10. This fixes a security issue in the Magnatune online music library support which could be used by malicious local users to overwrite system files. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3699 (* 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 packages for Slackware 11.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patches/packages/amarok-1.4.10-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patches/packages/libgpod-0.6.0-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz
Updated packages for Slackware 12.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/amarok-1.4.10-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/libgpod-0.6.0-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Updated package for Slack...
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Slackware 11.0 packages:
2ab56055c9ca7847ed65c25f465a0275 amarok-1.4.10-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz
ab32cea2cd3d3cd43936988bccc48c89 libgpod-0.6.0-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz
Slackware 12.0 packages:
a0ec7916b6640434261fb5c3fd84ac9a amarok-1.4.10-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
24f49efce807ca020d28aebea535e26c libgpod-0.6.0-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Slackware 12.1 package:
78a279389e3e55787feced49d16165c6 amarok-1.4.10-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
Slackware -current package:
1785abe22851578e85fb4c18b5fd0a4b amarok-1.4.10-i486-1.tgz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg amarok-1.4.10-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz For Slackware 11.0 and 12.0 systems, also upgrade to the new libgpod package.
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