Slackware 13.x: 2011-210-02 Critical: DHCPCD Security Fix
slackware
July 29, 2011
New dhcpcd packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, and -current to fix security issues
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/dhcpcd-5.2.12-i486-1_slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. Sanitize the host name provided by the DHCP server to insure that it does not contain any shell metacharacters. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-0996 (* Security fix *)
Topics Covered
Where Find New Packages
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for
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Updated package for Slackware 13.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.0/patches/packages/dhcpcd-3.2.3-i486-2_slack13.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.0/patches/packages/dhcpcd-3.2.3-x86_64-2_slack13.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware 13.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1:
Updated package for Slackware 13.37:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 13.0 package:
1029af8f686830f358e053ca2406b9a6 dhcpcd-3.2.3-i486-2_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package:
5615c7feb96339495bf628ea248a6b76 dhcpcd-3.2.3-x86_64-2_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package:
23211c76d60f18f568a44f76c6cbc2dc dhcpcd-5.2.12-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package:
2b186bb623ee30926e54e11c5017ec14 dhcpcd-5.2.12-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package:
9b669fe2c0f4cd3267aad81a28e8302c dhcpcd-5.2.12-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package:
77564e0ba2daaa5066acd44cd33e8f40 dhcpcd-5.2.12-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware -current package:
8700b8a222d2cbc3564cd9d25b551ac1 dhcpcd-5.2.12-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
1d96860005547b5edfc55a4d79fb44cd dhcpcd-5.2.12-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg dhcpcd-5.2.12-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
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