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Slackware 14.0: SSA:2013-191-02 Critical: Dbus Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey July 10, 2013
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Updated dbus packages released for Slackware to address a severe security vulnerability impacting system functionalities.
New dbus packages are available for Slackware 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/dbus-1.4.20-i486-4_slack14.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a security issue where misuse of va_list could be used to cause a denial of service for system services. Vulnerability reported by Alexandru Cornea. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-2168 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory Slackware dbus deny of service system service

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 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/dbus-1.4.20-i486-4_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/dbus-1.4.20-x86_64-4_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.0 package: a720afc6cb939df64d9b6e15ad3d20ff dbus-1.4.20-i486-4_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: ff619d4caa1c438435bad5cc5d57c24c dbus-1.4.20-x86_64-4_slack14.0.txz
Slackware -current package: f3f0e28aecabb58b212d3bd580a194e4 a/dbus-1.6.12-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: cfd43378f0947229b58e95396192a7b7 a/dbus-1.6.12-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg dbus-1.4.20-i486-4_slack14.0.txz