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Slackware 14.x 2016-266-01 Critical: OpenSSL Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey September 22, 2016
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates to the openssl packages resolve significant security vulnerabilities affecting various Slackware releases. It’s essential to upgrade now to ensure your systems remain protected.
New openssl packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssl-1.0.2i-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes denial-of-service and other security issues. For more information, see: https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20160922.txt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6304 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6305 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2183 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6303 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6302 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2182 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2180 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2177 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2178 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2179 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2181 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6306 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6307 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6308 (*

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical software update OpenSSL 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 packages for Slackware 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/openssl-solibs-1.0.1u-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/openssl-1.0.1u-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/openssl-solibs-1.0.1u-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Updated packages for Slackware 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/openssl-1.0.1u-i486-1_slack14.1.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/openssl-solibs-1.0.1u-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slac...

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MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.0 packages: e6d4b3a76383f9f253da4128ba23f269 openssl-1.0.1u-i486-1_slack14.0.txz c61d31a1751ae39af89d3fee0b54f0d8 openssl-solibs-1.0.1u-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 packages: 96be19e6a96c9beb5d3bbc55348fb483 openssl-1.0.1u-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz b7a8fa2ebd16c8ae106fc1267bc29eca openssl-solibs-1.0.1u-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 packages: 099b960e62eaea5d1a639a61a2fabca7 openssl-1.0.1u-i486-1_slack14.1.txz b5d5219e05db97f63c4d6c389d6884fb openssl-solibs-1.0.1u-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 packages: fc96c87d76c9d1efd1290ac847fa7c7c openssl-1.0.1u-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz e873b66f84f45ea34d028a3d524ce573 openssl-solibs-1.0.1u-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 packages: 85ebfd338921f2818e84e0ad07b3cf1c openssl-1.0.2i-i586-1_slack14.2.txz 5d8aa37736b364beabda0bb50f6b87b1 openssl-solibs-1.0.2i-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 packages: 6a98076465b9e7f2bca791ae957787f5 openssl-1.0.2i-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz 1aa557b1c5cd8f6ce2a5986395ae47c9 openssl-solibs-1.0.2i-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current packages: ceebd7f21ac6e9cb2c94d808ef7e83fc a/openssl-solibs-1.0.2i-i586-1.txz faef6f627e1eda3c99f1507005042ec7 n/openssl-1.0.2i-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: 8c4fb36e01b7943504d24ca4a913b83d a/openssl-solibs-1.0.2i-x86_64-1.txz 75e17a5b960c2cfa7e8803dd52c072a1 n/openssl-1.0.2i-x86_64-1.txz

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security advisory denial of service critical software update OpenSSL Slackware

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg openssl-1.0.2i-i586-1_slack14.2.txz openssl-solibs-1.0.2i-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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