Slackware 14.x: 2019-011-01 Critical: Irssi Security Fix
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January 11, 2019
New irssi 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/irssi-1.1.2-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update addresses bugs including security and stability issues: A NULL pointer dereference occurs for an "empty" nick. Certain nick names could result in out-of-bounds access when printing theme strings. Crash due to a NULL pointer dereference w hen the number of windows exceeds the available space. Use-after-free when SASL messages are received in an unexpected order. Use-after-free when a server is disconnected during netsplits. Use-after-free when hidden lines were expired from the scroll buffer. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7050 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7051 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7052 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7053 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7054 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5882 (* Security
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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:
118b1b29671bdc6baf5395e6f61a01cb irssi-1.1.2-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
64ba78a75fc90f87a07d46dc83401ec3 irssi-1.1.2-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
4041a1c4e5c085cfb3620bf96060fe86 irssi-1.1.2-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
1c0e906da9e4b661296f568239ed9cd9 irssi-1.1.2-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package:
f0b3aaad26e6f973d02d4787ecc55d36 irssi-1.1.2-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
de513f411e82498d0e8a5ee928f67fcc irssi-1.1.2-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package:
2305420644a7a6f787616ddb14f9249a n/irssi-1.1.2-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
2b657957f83393f58e729442cee236a9 n/irssi-1.1.2-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg irssi-1.1.2-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
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