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Slackware 2017-172-02 Advisory: High Risk OpenSSH Remote Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey June 21, 2017
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent OpenVPN updates address important vulnerabilities affecting multiple Slackware versions, notably issues related to denial of service.
New openvpn 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/openvpn-2.3.17-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes several denial of service issues discovered by Guido Vranken. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7508 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7520 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7521 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7512 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7522 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update slackware openvpn

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://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: 326003ba4359c994d9d9451d8c811a7c openvpn-2.3.17-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 38d3e975bd173066d417c00817b1926f openvpn-2.3.17-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: 9d90bff4b3934035000e0a637dcd5870 openvpn-2.3.17-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: bf3e8104d8f53c2a5cabbde3cd1175f3 openvpn-2.3.17-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package: 4394a24fc1745b619a6d640da18a17df openvpn-2.3.17-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 7231d5dc636ccf47fca8fb60d92c6e9c openvpn-2.3.17-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package: 37a195492c74384fa7a95f9b8c5d528d openvpn-2.3.17-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: dc3a2cdf61c2b1d796ed0663f9deeb77 openvpn-2.3.17-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 601bfdb72e6fef2a0d8108ea33f5cf5d openvpn-2.3.17-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 6329704b8a952f3de8b64fe3b294d5ab openvpn-2.3.17-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: 0d4cb74aab8225c1967f37c9e1bff8f4 openvpn-2.3.17-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: f70fdb325b03da7b18bcfadda367e7b9 openvpn-2.3.17-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: e8aec8c39f95837fd4632167e7844a65 n/openvpn-2.4.3-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: b580604ff3b78acd74805c41d4c2bcc8 n/openvpn-2.4.3-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update slackware openvpn

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg openvpn-2.3.17-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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