-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] gnutls (SSA:2009-128-01) New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1415 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1416 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/gnutls-2.6.2-i486-2_slack12.2.tgz Patched the following security issues: - Corrected double free on signature verification failure. Reported by Miroslav Kratochvil. - Noticed when investigating the previous GNUTLS-SA-2009-1 problem. All DSA keys generated using GnuTLS 2.6.x are corrupt. For more information, see: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1415 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1416 (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the 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 https://slackware.com for additional mirror sites near you. Updated package for Slackware 12.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/gnutls-2.6.2-i486-2_slack12.0.tgz Updated package for Slackware 12.1: Updated package for Slackware 12.2: Updated package for Slackware -current: MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 12.0 package: 0028d3e43ed87ae20cfd5264676d86ba gnutls-2.6.2-i486-2_slack12.0.tgz Slackware 12.1 package: c5a62819b7ef93ee41ed4c05d6f56c02 gnutls-2.6.2-i486-2_slack12.1.tgz Slackware 12.2 package: eb930f4c0361e4e0bd24044a3c386ce7 gnutls-2.6.2-i486-2_slack12.2.tgz Slackware -current package: c277628054339e0c999daabb94b5a7fb gnutls-2.6.6-i486-1.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg gnutls-2.6.2-i486-2_slack12.2.tgz +-----+