Slackware 14.1: SSA:2015-111-07 Moderate: Mutt Crash Issue
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April 22, 2015
New mutt 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/mutt-1.5.23-i486-2_slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. Patched a vulnerability where malformed headers can cause mutt to crash. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9116 (* Security fix *)
Topics Covered
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:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.37/patches/packages/mutt-1.5.23-i486-2_slack13.37.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.37/patches/packages/mutt-1.5.23-x86_64-2_slack13.37.txz
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:
4d1e798cf9d680add4d110d18d078ca9 mutt-1.5.23-i486-2_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package:
2e079355fb3b55befadeb1dd391e307f mutt-1.5.23-x86_64-2_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package:
ff976a35f91f9f3c200d6891d1984dd4 mutt-1.5.23-i486-2_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
9c33b0bd57f8655ab75d79139fbee243 mutt-1.5.23-x86_64-2_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
396d0f603191d3dfbeff9de0c2f938e5 mutt-1.5.23-i486-2_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
089de3254201052d54d68e9637a09060 mutt-1.5.23-x86_64-2_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package:
7957996c8e77b9c6ad648a1916ff841f n/mutt-1.5.23-i486-2.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
e9453f4ae3fec0bdde4471c07287c494 n/mutt-1.5.23-x86_64-2.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mutt-1.5.23-i486-2_slack14.1.txz
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