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Slackware 13.1: SSA:2011-086-03 Critical: Shadow NIS Issue Fix

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Calendar Grey March 27, 2011
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] shadow (SSA:2011-086-03) New shad
New shadow packages are available for Slackware 13.1 and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/shadow-4.1.4.3-i486-1_slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt. This release fixes a security issue where local users may be able to add themselves to NIS groups through chfn and chsh. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-0721 (* Security fix *) Thanks to Gary Langshaw for collecting important additional patches from svn.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update Slackware shadow issue NIS group

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 13.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 13.1 package: ba21ebb8fc8bc7b39644db3c5d4820da shadow-4.1.4.3-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: e693c9f69b414061de8041bdae8bed7a shadow-4.1.4.3-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware -current package: d7e43c3da5bbb677587bbf275235f306 shadow-4.1.4.3-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: cc6dc5cf8d04bb61d0589911db8f3f64 shadow-4.1.4.3-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update Slackware shadow issue NIS group

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg shadow-4.1.4.3-i486-1_slack13.1.txz