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Slackware 14.x: 2017-279-01 Critical: curl FTP Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey October 6, 2017
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent curl upgrades for Slackware releases address a critical vulnerability related to FTP buffer handling, ensuring enhanced security measures.
New curl packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/curl-7.56.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: libcurl may read outside of a heap allocated buffer when doing FTP. For more information, see: https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2017-1000254.html https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1000254 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical slackware curl ftp issue

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: 880c7281862df00ffe344295bd422f7a curl-7.56.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 6025ce06e93ddf6520f5bc731ff0888d curl-7.56.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 0d887113412626fcc3f4fefa72456a6c curl-7.56.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 1d99e50e4a8f0ea7efe4784fb0b68ac8 curl-7.56.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: 4130d13192b46d033d7d7931628733d5 curl-7.56.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: de3bf8673814b9a4f07b04de8719357a curl-7.56.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 80d914f7e63eaef96538ae032227dfea n/curl-7.56.0-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 19b32807404f534a5ce33cd0a3f31a01 n/curl-7.56.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical slackware curl ftp issue

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg curl-7.56.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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