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Slackware 14.0: SSA:2013-251-01 Critical: Subversion Local Escalation

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Calendar Grey September 9, 2013
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates for subversion address a critical local privilege escalation vulnerability in Slackware versions 14.0 and -current. Ensure you upgrade immediately!
New subversion 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/subversion-1.7.13-i486-1_slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a local privilege escalation vulnerability via symlink attack. For more information, see: https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2013-4277-advisory.txt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4277 (* 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 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.0 package: 69496770f3642cc7f1c6c5e3530c1fa1 subversion-1.7.13-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 5b8e4a96f9b7bf2f86205de6469cacec subversion-1.7.13-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 4f90239e56033f2e42860204e538d207 d/subversion-1.7.13-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: ee708c43a271ecc51eb5e546cf09c91d d/subversion-1.7.13-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg subversion-1.7.13-i486-1_slack14.0.txz

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