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Slackware 14.0: 2013-042-01 Critical Update for OpenSSL Data Corruption

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Calendar Grey February 12, 2013
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Enhance your Slackware installation by installing updated openssl packages to address significant data integrity problems and safeguard your system.
New openssl packages are available for Slackware 14.0, and -current to fix a bug in openssl-1.0.1d

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssl-1.0.1e-i486-1_slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes a regression in openssl-1.0.1d, where the fix for CVE-2013-0169 caused data corruption on CPUs with AES-NI support. patches/packages/openssl-solibs-1.0.1e-i486-1_slack14.0.txz: Upgraded.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical update Slackware openssl data corruption

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 packages for Slackware 14.0:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
Updated packages for Slackware -current:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.0 packages: 4df2d704e649667ef04093faa6920bba openssl-1.0.1e-i486-1_slack14.0.txz 3525b7c4d2e1e54851080f731d70a835 openssl-solibs-1.0.1e-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 packages: 1e1f09edce11cac2ffcff4b2324fb532 openssl-1.0.1e-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz 23c1ff47378361c758fb49d1b005eb13 openssl-solibs-1.0.1e-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware -current packages: 1dce1d27bc6dba3f1acd61972b0f2c63 a/openssl-solibs-1.0.1e-i486-1.txz 3ef010a9da36b042d6724ebf00061192 n/openssl-1.0.1e-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: 9ef4661b4072028e2fe656d3ba3ed590 a/openssl-solibs-1.0.1e-x86_64-1.txz 0c3bbbb3a280a36081e50b619ae292e4 n/openssl-1.0.1e-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical update Slackware openssl data corruption

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg openssl-1.0.1e-i486-1_slack14.0.txz openssl-solibs-1.0.1e-i486-1_slack14.0.txz