Slackware 14.1: SSA:2013-322-02 Critical Memory Corruption Fix
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November 19, 2013
New openssh packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix a security issue
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssh-6.4p1-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. sshd(8): fix a memory corruption problem triggered during rekeying when an AES-GCM cipher is selected. For more information, see: https://www.openssh.org/txt/gcmrekey.adv https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4548 (* 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 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 14.1 package:
5a0481fe4e0088a50e829ec93538cec2 openssh-6.4p1-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
1a2593f2628a2a77ac0fa8aaa41e1467 openssh-6.4p1-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package:
cf127ee94cc295db6b364e3fb70f7cfa n/openssh-6.4p1-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
a10087855628e3ada8e597340fbed93f n/openssh-6.4p1-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg openssh-6.4p1-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Next, restart the sshd daemon: # sh /etc/rc.d/rc.sshd restart
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