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Slackware 12.1-13.37: 2012-237-01 Critical: Dhcp Memory Leak Update

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Calendar Grey August 24, 2012
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent improvements in dhcp packages address memory consumption problems and service interruption vulnerabilities within Slackware systems. Make sure to update immediately!
New dhcp packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 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/dhcp-4.2.4_P1-i486-1_slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. This fixes memory leaks, denial of service vulnerabilities, and disallows packets with zero length client ids (not valid according to RFC 2132 section 9.14). For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-4539 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-4868 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-3954 (* Security fix *)

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 additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 12.1:
Updated package for Slackware 12.2:
Updated package for Slackware 13.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0:
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 12.1 package: dbea8c7d1af7791576bc3c31f5f9a79a dhcp-4.1_ESV_R6-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
Slackware 12.2 package: acabeef1d2a4e96500f6dbc87420055e dhcp-4.1_ESV_R6-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz
Slackware 13.0 package: 777a165ed77730242eb713db68e70b2a dhcp-4.1_ESV_R6-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: d77b59a81e241f0b2431e49de3fbbe66 dhcp-4.1_ESV_R6-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: 9f29c3441b2cd8b1f10176aff325a6f2 dhcp-4.1_ESV_R6-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: 5c9fa9aada8a5970d2d91d43ea62533d dhcp-4.1_ESV_R6-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package: 5541c65c7dec1309ee5f9033d4137585 dhcp-4.2.4_P1-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 47642809170421181423985e94804699 dhcp-4.2.4_P1-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware -current package: 58e253889a9d1d9189932dad4c3899ba n/dhcp-4.2.4_P1-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 92f8774dfb3809891055debbfafbd3c1 n/dhcp-4.2.4_P1-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg dhcp-4.2.4_P1-i486-1_slack13.37.txz Then, restart the dhcp daemon.

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