Slackware: 2015-233-01 Critical GnuTLS Security Patch Update Guide
slackware
August 21, 2015
New gnutls 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/gnutls-3.3.17.1-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes some bugs and security issues. For more information, see: http://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2015-2 http://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2015-3 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-6251 (* Security fix *)
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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:
2658a7061f9920cde5dfcb22425c127a gnutls-3.3.17.1-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
357bcae385268d44bc865429fd8cc4a2 gnutls-3.3.17.1-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
b430addfad1fc665de4dffc349cf9411 gnutls-3.3.17.1-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
76b05e6a90c86e1c6a7d85020c24bde5 gnutls-3.3.17.1-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package:
07483f2fc936497380949cfeb36e4b3d n/gnutls-3.4.4.1-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
b794877ee2edee391dc8357d835950a0 n/gnutls-3.4.4.1-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg gnutls-3.3.17.1-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
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