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Slackware 14.2: SSA:2018-226-01 Low Severity: DoS and Timing Issues

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Calendar Grey August 15, 2018
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recently released OpenSSL updates for Slackware tackle minor security vulnerabilities. Ensure your system is up-to-date for improved safety.
New openssl packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssl-1.0.2p-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes two low severity security issues: Client DoS due to large DH parameter. Cache timing vulnerability in RSA Key Generation. For more information, see: https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20180612.txt https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20180416.txt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-0732 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-0737 (* Security fix *) patches/packages/openssl-solibs-1.0.2p-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded.

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 packages for Slackware 14.2:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
Updated packages for Slackware -current:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.2 packages: cf7c40e9c66711e028671a7bb38abd99 openssl-1.0.2p-i586-1_slack14.2.txz d2850088b0aed90a45aa250ebffad451 openssl-solibs-1.0.2p-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 packages: 9d42083aaf9c4854928ec380307ebabb openssl-1.0.2p-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz fd566d85eb3c5cbd82e90b7215b61c91 openssl-solibs-1.0.2p-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current packages: bd79b75ed5522f75945612c2e2f5dcb8 a/openssl-solibs-1.1.0i-i586-1.txz 9aaa879284e70161ee40224c2b4660e3 n/openssl-1.1.0i-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: dadf088e88d02b583c21b1855ba875b5 a/openssl-solibs-1.1.0i-x86_64-1.txz 3ee4aa3c24eb8be63ed67a5391edffe4 n/openssl-1.1.0i-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg openssl-*.txz

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