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Slackware: 2018-199-01 Critical: Httpd DoS Issues Fixed

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Calendar Grey July 18, 2018
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Enhanced nginx packages released for Slackware to tackle significant security vulnerabilities and improvements. Update your machines promptly!
New httpd 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/httpd-2.4.34-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes two denial of service issues: mod_md: DoS via Coredumps on specially crafted requests mod_http2: DoS for HTTP/2 connections by specially crafted requests For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-8011 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1333 (* 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: 91123a66731b7803ebac0f55e3099e81 httpd-2.4.34-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 49c0a8ae83d724da460b73a78ddf1dda httpd-2.4.34-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: d695afcd996b00f7dbe00c89bf1c0ee1 httpd-2.4.34-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 8ebc97729250d80d319174ff64ca2921 httpd-2.4.34-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: 149a610e5280fcfbbe1066fa9cfeb970 httpd-2.4.34-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 7a35ce525340631b74e8ffe9e58f2b4c httpd-2.4.34-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: d95348a370dd9c2edc92c6f2274b8ce2 n/httpd-2.4.34-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: daea307cb655b015c4bafcbec6ba9869 n/httpd-2.4.34-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg httpd-2.4.34-i586-1_slack14.2.txz Then, restart Apache httpd: # /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd stop # /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd start

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