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Slackware 14.2: SSA:2017-011-03 Moderate: Irssi Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey January 12, 2017
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Enhanced irssi distributions for various Slackware iterations address denial of service vulnerabilities alongside critical security patches.
New irssi packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 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/irssi-0.8.21-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed security issues that may result in a denial of service. For more information, see: https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_01.txt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5193 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5194 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5195 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5196 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue slackware irssi

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: 3eb33bcef230ccc5958a8dc8cba1c7fe irssi-0.8.21-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 1f0eb43111019eed5dd8c26cba61f574 irssi-0.8.21-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: 28a2f2cd696ba6d5d920b4c189444a96 irssi-0.8.21-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: e2ea8f04f592693c85635e8a5fa3fb35 irssi-0.8.21-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package: afb02c55f17e8b1bd477c8eb32899b8f irssi-0.8.21-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 45d8314a05f3838546613539c855d5c1 irssi-0.8.21-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package: 4edd1832ee0ed0f6792167d4fb4a430f irssi-0.8.21-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: d5171fc0d7fcd666a5fce9547a90820c irssi-0.8.21-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 4a771bf5c469748d3d44e7ce1666b151 irssi-0.8.21-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 590b48e4a00fe503ddd09ef3b2e2f7fe irssi-0.8.21-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: 76dee8927ed711fac7e0bbc43d024bc6 irssi-0.8.21-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 74230f8a454fb31a2274cbcf35b0ffe4 irssi-0.8.21-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 2e9dc25c963c965320f53eb191a82ae6 n/irssi-0.8.21-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: e23a3066d3eb811d6fa95a99011c939c n/irssi-0.8.21-x86_64-1.txz

Severity
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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue slackware irssi

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg irssi-0.8.21-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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