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Slackware 14.x: OpenSSL Poodle, Heartbleed Important Security Update

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Calendar Grey December 28, 2016
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent Python distributions for Slackware have been introduced to tackle significant vulnerabilities, encompassing threats like sweet32 and HTTPoxy.
New python 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/python-2.7.13-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes security issues: Issue #27850: Remove 3DES from ssl module's default cipher list to counter measure sweet32 attack (CVE-2016-2183). Issue #27568: Prevent HTTPoxy attack (CVE-2016-1000110). Ignore the HTTP_PROXY variable when REQUEST_METHOD environment is set, which indicates that the script is in CGI mode. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2183 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1000110 (* Security fix *)

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 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 14.0 package: 42ce2e2375725fd992c17b2afbe4960d python-2.7.13-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 0778e88748ade45fba4a7cbee1fd9eb5 python-2.7.13-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 4bee31bcfc23433f0a8b386bb64ad051 python-2.7.13-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: d7f9f71c4ad2ea100f9b96250171c670 python-2.7.13-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: efea4e1f1f61dfd221e5487ce9fa7864 python-2.7.13-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 84e945560483b28283d9f9ef3ef7f329 python-2.7.13-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 0a28044f725982b3eaf647e530c9de85 d/python-2.7.13-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 67d18569672de5dd48e4dda2f7ce0e88 d/python-2.7.13-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg python-2.7.13-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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