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Slackware 14.2 Security Advisory: OpenSSL Missing Check Critical Issue

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Calendar Grey September 26, 2016
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To upgrade OpenSSL packages for Slackware 14.2 and -current because of a security vulnerability, check the official Slackware website and security advisories for guidance
New openssl packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssl-1.0.2j-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Missing CRL sanity check (CVE-2016-7052) For more information, see: https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20160926.txt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7052 (* Security fix *) patches/packages/openssl-solibs-1.0.2j-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical security fix issue slackware openssl missing check

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

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.2 packages: cf3e90f91b35ee96f5a900e5f2ec8fd5 openssl-1.0.2j-i586-1_slack14.2.txz 31cc46351fdd4c487f75abdbfcd696e7 openssl-solibs-1.0.2j-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 packages: 333fd278752b5f04a805aeabd77f28c4 openssl-1.0.2j-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz 6b25daf23b1cfc59351308b9c11e830a openssl-solibs-1.0.2j-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current packages: 98337bdfe00f04be784953fee5c023ca a/openssl-solibs-1.0.2j-i586-1.txz 3cd05a7ed655e7f51f652a31b9b908e7 n/openssl-1.0.2j-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: 6907d9a091ace959d8f04aa92cd7e5f6 a/openssl-solibs-1.0.2j-x86_64-1.txz 4017d82d5c4c370ab6850a5d623d321a n/openssl-1.0.2j-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

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