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Slackware 14.2 Advisory 2018-008-01 Critical: Irssi Security Fix

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Calendar Grey January 9, 2018
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates for irssi address vital security vulnerabilities affecting Slackware versions 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and the current branch.
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-1.0.6-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes multiple security vulnerabilities. For more information, see: https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_01.txt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5205 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5206 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5207 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5208 (* 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 14.0:
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: f8ed890e54c7464618616b2ae95724af irssi-1.0.6-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 10a12607dfac6b996442f7463f4e7342 irssi-1.0.6-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 51e380c175ec41a6cb947a2c0b3e7d7a irssi-1.0.6-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 271e3af4c64640b778f94e2612bfb477 irssi-1.0.6-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: 5692a612b1c90f7c9724296adc04404f irssi-1.0.6-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 2433d5d8ac7570e95b3804a99e6cf06b irssi-1.0.6-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: cf4e27ad7ba625ee4bf230712e371070 n/irssi-1.0.6-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: d7adea982f907b4e5ec83f52b4b73d7d n/irssi-1.0.6-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg irssi-1.0.6-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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