Slackware 14.1: SSA:2014-175-03 Critical DoS Fix for GnuPG2
slackware
June 24, 2014
New gnupg2 packages are available for Slackware 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/gnupg2-2.0.24-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 13.37:
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 13.37 package:
cc0c37aacd0d3eab10f353d3f82f3584 gnupg2-2.0.24-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package:
8c76fafd4e469785dd571ad84a679a18 gnupg2-2.0.24-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package:
47bc00e244c2c52d8177fbae205b6609 gnupg2-2.0.24-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
d76d81aa67d0806ad3a85b4e1772bd31 gnupg2-2.0.24-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
3649d32b6fb1733320acbc47ca10ff02 gnupg2-2.0.24-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
9f77fb4f094295c4c396d02fba3b8159 gnupg2-2.0.24-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package:
a14b1af17da04ccc4651215c84682d5d n/gnupg2-2.0.24-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
02705c86d2231234533427c1cd5b1da3 n/gnupg2-2.0.24-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg gnupg2-2.0.24-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
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