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Slackware 14.1: SSA:2015-162-02 Critical OpenSSL Security Issues

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Calendar Grey June 11, 2015
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Fresh OpenSSL updates have been released for Slackware to resolve urgent security vulnerabilities and glitches. Perform the upgrade immediately.
New openssl packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssl-1.0.1n-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixes several bugs and security issues: o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788) o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789) o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790) o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792) o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791) For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1788 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1789 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1790 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1792 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1791 (* Security fix *) patches/packages/openssl-solibs-1.0.1n-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical OpenSSL package upgrade Slackware security issues

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 packages for Slackware 13.0:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 13.0:
Updated packages for Slackware 13.1:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 13.1:
Updated packages for Slackware 13.37:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 13.37:
Updated packages for Slackware 14.0:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
Updated packages for Slackware 14.1:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
Updated packages for Slackware -current:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 13.0 packages: 383ecfed6bfef1440a44d7082745848a openssl-0.9.8zg-i486-1_slack13.0.txz fb186187ffa200e22d9450a9d0e321f6 openssl-solibs-0.9.8zg-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 packages: eb52318ed52fef726402f0b2a74745c5 openssl-0.9.8zg-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz 9447927b960a01b21149e28a9783021f openssl-solibs-0.9.8zg-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 packages: 37f46f6b4fe2acbe217eaf7c0b33b704 openssl-0.9.8zg-i486-1_slack13.1.txz 986de2e71676f61d788a59a1e0c8de1f openssl-solibs-0.9.8zg-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 packages: 6b160ce817dcde3ae5b3a861b284387b openssl-0.9.8zg-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz 503d891680c711162386ea7e3daadca8 openssl-solibs-0.9.8zg-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 packages: 5e7501b1d73d01d3d87704c3cfd3a888 openssl-0.9.8zg-i486-1_slack13.37.txz 874f0b59870dd3f259640c9930a02f99 openssl-solibs-0.9.8zg-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 packages: b6d91614458040d461dff3c3eab45206 openssl-0.9.8zg-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz be106df5e59c2be7fa442df8ba85ad0b openssl-solibs-0.9.8zg-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 packages: ee7c3937e6a6d7ac7537f751af7da7b9 openssl-1.0.1n-i486-1_slack14.0.txz 758662437d33f99ec0a686cedeb1919e openssl-solibs-1.0.1n-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 packages: 2dfdc4729e93cf460018e9e30a6223dc openssl-1.0.1n-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz 9cb4b34e97e60f6bfe4c843aabeae954 openssl-solibs-1.0.1n-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 packages: 5a9bf08d55615cfc097109c2e3786f7b openssl-1.0.1n-i486-1_slack14.1.txz fb1c05468e5c38d51a8ff6ac435e3a20 openssl-solibs-1.0.1n-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 packages: 1ef5cede3f954c3e4741012ffa76b750 openssl-1.0.1n-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz ea22c288c60ae1d7ea8c5b3a1608462b openssl-solibs-1.0.1n-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current packages: 56db8712d653c060f910e8915a8f8656 a/openssl-solibs-1.0.1n-i586-1.txz 6d6264c9943e27240db5c8f5ec342e27 n/openssl-1.0.1n-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: e73f7aff5aa0ad14bc06428544f99ae2 a/openssl-solibs-1.0.1n-x86_64-1.txz 91b550b9eb0ac0c580e158375a93c0e4 n/openssl-1.0.1n-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical OpenSSL package upgrade Slackware security issues

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg openssl-1.0.1n-i486-1_slack14.1.txz openssl-solibs-1.0.1n-i486-1_slack14.1.txz

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