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Slackware 14.2 SSA:2016-259-02 Urgent: Curl Memory Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey September 16, 2016
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Enhance curl on Slackware to address heap vulnerabilities affecting security. Essential patches provided for numerous versions.
New curl packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/curl-7.50.3-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed heap overflows in four libcurl functions: curl_escape(), curl_easy_escape(), curl_unescape() and curl_easy_unescape(). For more information, see: https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2016-7167.html https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7167 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical update slackware heap overflow curl

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 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 13.0 package: 14421c446c83e8067ee99051f0ea8609 curl-7.50.3-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 62830f5888c0fba626ad29f82b0fef3e curl-7.50.3-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: 72ebdfcb792ea6efd7730a6fd9edba23 curl-7.50.3-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: a61c692091c2b46fcf365ca63e0abad4 curl-7.50.3-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package: 490fb0de5ce5440f67e7aa7a6dd56bd3 curl-7.50.3-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: d5ec25d07d5daaf0c99387d449c01968 curl-7.50.3-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package: 28f4d698e11368b795efcf5af7a92dc0 curl-7.50.3-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: a3b13d4a41e59a2b0572d513a6c55f88 curl-7.50.3-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 9f3f2d8c03bc821f23cacb116ed47feb curl-7.50.3-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: c7df6f381c212fe86d1f182db6c2976c curl-7.50.3-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: d4fc39f22c3e8d50b563df71da58bd58 curl-7.50.3-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: aac11d7c1780f14f7d45c9a3f6ee1874 curl-7.50.3-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 23023b11dd5301bcb6329a9d77d8630c n/curl-7.50.3-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 560b459c9b76eea9cceead3fdf109657 n/curl-7.50.3-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg curl-7.50.3-i586-1_slack14.2.txz