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Slackware 14.0/14.1: 2015-111-04 Critical: Libssh Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey April 22, 2015
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated libssh packages for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current resolve significant security vulnerabilities, accompanied by detailed upgrade guidelines.
New libssh packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libssh-0.6.4-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes some security issues. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-0017 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8132 (* 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 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 14.0 package: c065d69fa6b9cf505a961845bc4fbd63 libssh-0.6.4-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 83dbdfb47b8a5339ca2ab36d2c8502ed libssh-0.6.4-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 62d39ea5f47fe14ae714f8b81cf4e329 libssh-0.6.4-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 4746fe327a9d1ef85662e2e1aa8ff61b libssh-0.6.4-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: c3fda7dab2df2cd4226a353c6855c1f1 l/libssh-0.6.4-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: b90eff88f87b47115bbfd559909e3c67 l/libssh-0.6.4-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libssh-0.6.4-i486-1_slack14.1.txz

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