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Slackware: 2011-108-01 High: Fix for Acl Symlink Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey April 18, 2011
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Recently updated acl packages have been issued for Slackware to address a security issue involving symlink vulnerabilities that affect various versions.
New acl packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/acl-2.2.50-i486-1_slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. Fix the --physical option in setfacl and getfacl to prevent symlink attacks. Thanks to Martijn Dekker for the notification. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-4411 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory threat slackware high symlink file descriptor acl

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/acl-2.2.50-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 12.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/acl-2.2.50-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 12.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/patches/packages/acl-2.2.50-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 12.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/patches/packages...

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MD5 Signatures

Slackware 11.0 package: d30a67b28019f96cdb9fde78564b0338 acl-2.2.50-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz
Slackware 12.0 package: fd3071de0015e36ce6dd15035d67a60a acl-2.2.50-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Slackware 12.1 package: 9775cc97f24ee94b62da02f44ee68a3a acl-2.2.50-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
Slackware 12.2 package: 67add881c7cc12b47cddf60423d282bc acl-2.2.50-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz
Slackware 13.0 package: dbef85a994c8c70332b8f3dce90cbf95 acl-2.2.50-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 28d74a221c8a4cbc6ab08205bbdde1f1 acl-2.2.50-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: 11e21c1a878cbcf4bef85a37ba2ebc80 acl-2.2.50-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: 37ae456acafd28ccec14ffee46c3b1da acl-2.2.50-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware -current package: ceacbe4b1a09f595d8e446e7e13bf1e7 a/acl-2.2.50-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 0f2842fa027f90b3206888a65d001854 a/acl-2.2.50-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory threat slackware high symlink file descriptor acl

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg acl-2.2.50-i486-1_slack13.1.txz