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Slackware 14.1: SSA-2016-012-01 Critical: DHCP Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2016
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated networking packages mitigate service disruptions in multiple Slackware versions. Perform an upgrade for improved protection.
New dhcp 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/dhcp-4.3.3_P1-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a denial-of-service vulnerability. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8605 (* 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 13.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0:
Updated package for Slackware 13.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1:
Updated package for Slackware 13.37:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37:
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 13.0 package: 6ad5ff9f72bba1b5b957d62753e150ba dhcp-4.3.3_P1-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 857f5f6a205b5b2d9cdabfddd9857738 dhcp-4.3.3_P1-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: c93b501bd106a9be209bd73e1db1a381 dhcp-4.3.3_P1-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: f8a7205d1fc05db0b9da7e4107de3421 dhcp-4.3.3_P1-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package: 79e37f11acb0b8962932dd14410e9e7e dhcp-4.3.3_P1-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 117a0884ca170103215ff5640726086d dhcp-4.3.3_P1-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package: 569adae054290b008ab0bf3918d0a004 dhcp-4.3.3_P1-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 83c3c653443b27c44d1c382922384205 dhcp-4.3.3_P1-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 29bb03f2785eef54db9c86646e15a965 dhcp-4.3.3_P1-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 2fa938fc1aac6af5fd341602e8bbed1f dhcp-4.3.3_P1-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: f7f07429096d6a59b8c1c464126ecbc0 n/dhcp-4.3.3_P1-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: abe885a5389b2940cb7181c3edb59b37 n/dhcp-4.3.3_P1-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg dhcp-4.3.3_P1-i486-1_slack14.1.txz

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