Slackware 14.0: 2013-287-02 Critical GnuPG2 Infinite Recursion
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October 15, 2013
New gnupg2 packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnupg2-2.0.22-i486-1_slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed possible infinite recursion in the compressed packet parser. [CVE-2013-4402] Protect against rogue keyservers sending secret keys. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4402 (* 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 13.37:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37:
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 13.37 package:
2194f25dba02397b2323fa1d3c9c15ea gnupg2-2.0.22-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package:
7565e99bdd15bdd86097938c979f8b6b gnupg2-2.0.22-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package:
a9080b0567a8f98ae1189bdbf8c88aad gnupg2-2.0.22-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
5ac9c035acafa7b339d887bc67a96d89 gnupg2-2.0.22-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware -current package:
03ce9cfc9d2c8cc763a60e78f1788698 n/gnupg2-2.0.22-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
9f82aafc690fae866d71734ff4bb377f n/gnupg2-2.0.22-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg gnupg2-2.0.22-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
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