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Slackware: 2018-129-02 Critical: Wget Cookie Injection Issue

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2018
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Important patch released for wget on Slackware tackling vulnerability in cookie handling. Grab the newest version today!
New wget packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 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/wget-1.19.5-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed a security issue where a malicious web server could inject arbitrary cookies into the cookie jar file. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-0494 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update slackware wget cookie injection

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 13.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.0/patches/packages/wget-1.19.5-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.0/patches/packages/wget-1.19.5-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware 13.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/patches/packages/wget-1.19.5-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.1/patches/packages/wget-1.19.5-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware 13.37: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.37/patches/packages/wget-1.19.5-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86...

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Slackware 13.0 package: 99ecfce2e37284f1c6fda1bb6c361626 wget-1.19.5-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 88f90830a0e84098f108f570aaa2fbe9 wget-1.19.5-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: 3a7ef48cb111bbf5dbe97ecc7eb234fc wget-1.19.5-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: 857b8c1f7c9b483e68b319ff5ab4f06f wget-1.19.5-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package: 43a3a226d1d81f2326fae5627030c0f9 wget-1.19.5-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: a8914d8dbd714aeffdcdc08dcbe33004 wget-1.19.5-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package: 50280949b5a4a3dc3572aeb05916b6e0 wget-1.19.5-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: fa816d894bc0a1d59ea7d8438942e2ae wget-1.19.5-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 158ed137440fab2b580f96cc79e00ef0 wget-1.19.5-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: a99bae315db17913fe7af1413f0ae41d wget-1.19.5-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: 25ca08372a4536cd4b5dd6495ab654b4 wget-1.19.5-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 5ee02928aab549c7f57996df017ad2d8 wget-1.19.5-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 0cbf10e6eef10a6614fd4fdcc4b4e4cf n/wget-1.19.5-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 41a908b2ef8f6c82f4cf59b1ec3fc0e3 n/wget-1.19.5-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg wget-1.19.5-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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