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Slackware 14.1 2014-268-01 Critical: Bash Trailing String Processing

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Calendar Grey September 25, 2014
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates to bash security modules released for multiple Slackware versions target severe vulnerabilities, bolstering overall system defense.
New bash 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/bash-4.2.048-i486-2_slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. Patched an additional trailing string processing vulnerability discovered by Tavis Ormandy. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-7169 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical package update security fix slackware bash issue

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: 93780575208505d17b5305b202294e16 bash-3.1.018-i486-2_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 6ec269c8e958cd6265821b480af8e5d7 bash-3.1.018-x86_64-2_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: 21235413470903bb8eec907acb5b3248 bash-4.1.012-i486-2_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: e69bacaf484e8f924c09eacd91c8c737 bash-4.1.012-x86_64-2_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package: fa05abe5c8d6557ec1cef124e5d877ce bash-4.1.012-i486-2_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 97a0005c1e0701c8912dc30f8a6f2908 bash-4.1.012-x86_64-2_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package: d319186a0ab7e85562684669afc878c3 bash-4.2.048-i486-2_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 8835dc729d6029fc20b6b1b1df72ce13 bash-4.2.048-x86_64-2_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: fbb4b906de3a8f9bf5209fcc80e2a413 bash-4.2.048-i486-2_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: a786b69705d1ebb67fbf31df9d032699 bash-4.2.048-x86_64-2_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: bba7e4260df8c4d91d99dbf13d44ec79 a/bash-4.3.025-i486-2.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 7c9a285415bd636469da0cf405bb5692 a/bash-4.3.025-x86_64-2.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical package update security fix slackware bash issue

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg bash-4.2.048-i486-2_slack14.1.txz

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