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Slackware 14.1 2013-354-02 Important: GnuPG DSA Key Validation Update

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Calendar Grey December 21, 2013
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Fresh GnuPG updates launched for Slackware, addressing crucial security vulnerability that safeguards against the risks of RSA Key Leakage.
New gnupg packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnupg-1.4.16-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed the RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis attack as described by Genkin, Shamir, and Tromer. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4576 (* 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 13.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0:
Updated package for Slackware 13.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1:
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 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 13.0 package: 1b19a956ada33e1ac5ade0b4e6586d92 gnupg-1.4.16-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: d8b88c599806ab6f006bba9f7fd58d50 gnupg-1.4.16-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: 1a5e2df9356d37c68ff2029545d8a981 gnupg-1.4.16-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: 4baf7f1d0f62dcb4e9e1d3dbfbb87cdd gnupg-1.4.16-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package: 205c28267d67a88751d86b97e66cebe4 gnupg-1.4.16-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 69ada153c418f43b4ad38782c79d8e3e gnupg-1.4.16-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package: d2df6ff62d18880ff9f847caa84610a7 gnupg-1.4.16-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: ab2ade7b21df6af575fea32d7391517f gnupg-1.4.16-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 95ef3d7c28a0516654037dec7945c180 gnupg-1.4.16-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: fc8f60b3d5f258a6f2fb66a66db60929 gnupg-1.4.16-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: e2469fb2ba22ceb9e52d76831aa1b8e1 n/gnupg-1.4.16-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: f959c0f9009a26abc5294107bf8b188a n/gnupg-1.4.16-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg gnupg-1.4.16-i486-1_slack14.1.txz

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