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Slackware 14.0/14.1: 2016-034-03 Severe SSLv2 Vulnerability Detected

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Calendar Grey February 4, 2016
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Freshly introduced openssl updates for Slackware to mitigate foundational security vulnerabilities, improving overall system reliability and safeguarding user data.
New openssl packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssl-1.0.1r-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes the following security issue: SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197). For more information, see: https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20160128.txt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3197 (* Security fix *) patches/packages/openssl-solibs-1.0.1r-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded.

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 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 14.0 packages: 0d6e8d3b27326c84b9996ed189868eba openssl-1.0.1r-i486-1_slack14.0.txz e3cb0b75e9df4be9d8fd1cfcd2fbd306 openssl-solibs-1.0.1r-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 packages: 7b52f4a43b42703a6840945d55f503ee openssl-1.0.1r-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz eee92cb549bacae21e63bee22b9bb8d4 openssl-solibs-1.0.1r-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 packages: 5be72ab551b2064aa34c83b42a07ff85 openssl-1.0.1r-i486-1_slack14.1.txz b28e00a7124822258cfd137ab5ce0572 openssl-solibs-1.0.1r-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 packages: 8e0273b1e99e8caa48fcab2547f051e9 openssl-1.0.1r-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz 60f3994c35679455cab7a984493d1fdb openssl-solibs-1.0.1r-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current packages: 509771b1f7d58a682feb2099fdf3eb5d a/openssl-solibs-1.0.2f-i586-1.txz d72c0188f4223d1dc2d6080f8d99d92e n/openssl-1.0.2f-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: 0c6653d3c37271f9f1a58a8c0e1f7b40 a/openssl-solibs-1.0.2f-x86_64-1.txz e4ebd1204644ea58e1779187fe071428 n/openssl-1.0.2f-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

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

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