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Slackware 14.x Critical Security Advisory: Curl Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey July 12, 2018
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates for curl in Slackware tackle an important vulnerability involving buffer overflow, thereby enhancing the overall security and reliability of the system.
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-7.61.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a buffer overflow in SMTP send. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-0500 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical slackware curl update

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: fbcfd446b8068e16a43c28ca742f2650 curl-7.61.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 21bf24cfa0acd12a8aa7d7e022a2ca17 curl-7.61.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 37135b04c91293591591e2118d7f3030 curl-7.61.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 05c6d3cba63f0bdf13398f67f2a70aad curl-7.61.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: b570adabc34d5e79b83fb41220825738 curl-7.61.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: ac45db4dd8bed91a4fffcfc34bb117c8 curl-7.61.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 5c8c2504722db0cddbfa0f6452af5464 n/curl-7.61.0-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 3f5d0f918f5d5dc08268e36ed17e9fe6 n/curl-7.61.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg curl-7.61.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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