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

slackware
Calendar Grey July 12, 2018
Dist Slackware Esm H88
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] curl (SSA:2018-192-02) New curl p
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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security advisory buffer overflow critical slackware curl update

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Installation Instructions

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