Slackware: 2014-175-02 Critical: GnuPG Denial Of Service
slackware
June 24, 2014
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-1.4.17-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release includes a security fix to stop a denial of service using garbled compressed data packets which can be used to put gpg into an infinite loop. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4617 (* Security fix *)
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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:
2a3448e3d468203be5458c357d6f05ef gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package:
bd2c80dd4d2ae5a28c49026070bc7800 gnupg-1.4.17-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package:
0e49f54235b05a9b981af034c490b39d gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package:
becc38f574d9af131e667e573b410af9 gnupg-1.4.17-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package:
f807d51cb4d1474aa41979c0a933ca1d gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package:
a7e2270d3992e827c7f62d3e64218e16 gnupg-1.4.17-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package:
bbc9a2603c167222daeac34fcdbfd15d gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
e3fbe6149e0bad38952225c602788469 gnupg-1.4.17-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
42252dd42d19619ae2d40f85061f4cfc gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
032338eac243499017516e4d9bd8cece gnupg-1.4.17-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package:
4eb3e45b7337197ff3281335147b2556 n/gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
f09b029cd5daa846a9e87bc4699cda81 n/gnupg-1.4.17-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
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