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Slackware 14.0, 14.1 SSA-2016-121-01 Critical DoS in Subversion

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Calendar Grey April 30, 2016
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Debian provides upgraded curl packages to resolve significant security vulnerabilities, improving system reliability and overall performance.
New subversion 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/subversion-1.7.22-i486-2_slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. This update patches two security issues: CVE-2016-2167: svnserve/sasl may authenticate users using the wrong realm. CVE-2016-2168: Remotely triggerable DoS vulnerability in mod_authz_svn during COPY/MOVE authorization check. For more information, see: https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-2167-advisory.txt https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-2168-advisory.txt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2167 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2168 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS critical update Subversion Slackware

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: 5f59cf151153f86cd61f2c2219a81f80 subversion-1.7.22-i486-2_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 93712ed45e78c515c40162b85021278d subversion-1.7.22-x86_64-2_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: b9e7c9e0cd91fc47e0e5e7ed858253b7 subversion-1.7.22-i486-2_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: af62bdf7009eb35f99d44a9dfc2214cc subversion-1.7.22-x86_64-2_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: 28b16d0ab7a43837bfce9f4c8d1b3d67 d/subversion-1.9.4-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 91c1f0d9733150b4ad7e51efd33c4634 d/subversion-1.9.4-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg subversion-1.7.22-i486-2_slack14.1.txz