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Slackware 14.1: 2016-141-01 Urgent: Curl TLS Security Bypass Issue

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Calendar Grey May 20, 2016
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Curl libraries have been refreshed for Slackware to resolve a crucial TLS certificate bypass vulnerability. System update is advised to strengthen security measures.
New curl packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/curl-7.49.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed a TLS certificate check bypass with mbedTLS/PolarSSL. For more information, see: https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2016-3739.html https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3739 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue slackware package upgrade curl tls bypass

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: d657e1ea76588050d686770665617019 curl-7.49.0-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 9abe0a5a965d68287c418be47eea479b curl-7.49.0-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: 7235f0e3fb0a51ec1c1853b069d0f871 curl-7.49.0-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: 0585a8ef272683fb349cba00dd2b00b3 curl-7.49.0-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package: b08998240795985d4571b8c0e102c077 curl-7.49.0-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: d794f422f773c9d882ab56bc4cf89827 curl-7.49.0-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package: f3183e6f2dec4ced5a939ca34def4b70 curl-7.49.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 4e35da7c15e7adadaf377ec5998faa3f curl-7.49.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 5019d5453754d35a124cf1bb7a3a10a7 curl-7.49.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: be69e1b1fa061c51ee0770e85bb1aeef curl-7.49.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: a96e0edea184dbb4250dc226a29bd575 n/curl-7.49.0-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 8aec9ab909548d72e415e55b89c4a1c8 n/curl-7.49.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg curl-7.49.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz