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Slackware 14.2: 2019-09-04 Moderate Wget Buffer Overflow Patch

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Calendar Grey April 2, 2019
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates for wget have been released to address vulnerabilities on Slackware 14.2 and -current. Protect your system now!
New wget 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/wget-1.20.2-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed an unspecified buffer overflow vulnerability. (* 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 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.2 package: feeb88244f25b899408cd12271f9253f wget-1.20.2-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 16d27b3ac49df3ddb8e4355448bff8a8 wget-1.20.2-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 003da3e303321981b2fa3004e85bad9d n/wget-1.20.2-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 9807fec83a845705ea9b691199c179d3 n/wget-1.20.2-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg wget-1.20.2-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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