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Slackware 13.0: SSA-2014-268-02 Critical: Bash Security Patch

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Calendar Grey September 25, 2014
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Bash updates for Slackware 13.0 have been recompiled to address an important security vulnerability. Please check this link for guidance on how to update and further information.
New bash packages are available for Slackware 13.0 to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 13.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bash-3.1.018-i486-3_slack13.0.txz: Rebuilt. The patch for CVE-2014-7169 needed to be rebased against bash-3.1 in order to apply correctly. Thanks to B. Watson for the bug report. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-7169 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update security fix slackware bash

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:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 13.0 package: 17fe761daf847490e6286a6c59abd913 bash-3.1.018-i486-3_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 7eb0a4741287042658487f2b6089a4c5 bash-3.1.018-x86_64-3_slack13.0.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg bash-3.1.018-i486-3_slack13.0.txz

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