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Slackware 14.x: 2017-190-01 Critical: Irssi Remote Crash Fixes

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Calendar Grey July 9, 2017
Dist Slackware Esm H88
The latest Irssi patch for Slackware resolves vulnerabilities causing remote crashes and enhances security across various iterations.
New irssi 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/irssi-1.0.4-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes two remote crash issues as well as a few bugs. For more information, see: https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2017_07.txt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-10965 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-10966 (* Security fix *)

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 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: 87b988e8a87302f0ee3917a340b4c9b8 irssi-1.0.4-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 52c6601b41d94ca73329cd81c98a22e7 irssi-1.0.4-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 42b62c9e2e5a0eb4604c36a44871306d irssi-1.0.4-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: fb4f383fb573564edf512ebdcfcb8bce irssi-1.0.4-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: 17cc4ee7de34cce9c1d9580e4bb3ee28 irssi-1.0.4-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: be9c0c60efa20e5e5128feaae5a6cd9b irssi-1.0.4-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 9929782b9ccacab3cfb1c3afc4741199 n/irssi-1.0.4-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 6402f3e445cf08a454b07a718f0bb358 n/irssi-1.0.4-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg irssi-1.0.4-i586-1_slack14.2.txz After installing the updated package, one can issue the /upgrade command to load the new binary. TLS connections will require /reconnect.

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