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Slackware 14.2: 2017-087-01 Critical Access Threat in Mariadb

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2017
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates to mariadb packages for Slackware address critical security vulnerabilities, safeguarding data integrity and blocking unauthorized intrusion.
New mariadb packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mariadb-10.0.30-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Crash in libmysqlclient.so. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to compromise the server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to data. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-3302 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-3313 (* 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 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.2 package: 9b6c082f717f4d347dcb6ab4f7cdd0c2 mariadb-10.0.30-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: aa9b259310ad55091a98bf1d91c06d69 mariadb-10.0.30-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 9d8d5cc368dea8facaa23870b24a0d6e ap/mariadb-10.0.30-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 7b93dcf1483cc564db749c81f97de5af ap/mariadb-10.0.30-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mariadb-10.0.30-i586-1_slack14.2.txz Then, restart the database server: # sh /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld restart

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