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Slackware: 2019-180-01 Critical: Irssi SASL Login Issue

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Calendar Grey June 29, 2019
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates to irssi have been released for Slackware 14.0 to fix a critical security vulnerability affecting SASL authentication.
New irssi 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/irssi-1.1.3-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Use after free when sending SASL login to the server found by ilbelkyr. May affect the stability of Irssi. SASL logins may fail, especially during (manual and automated) reconnect. For more information, see: https://irssi.org/2019/06/29/irssi-1.2.1-1.1.3-1.0.8-released/ https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-13045 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue package update Slackware stable release irssi SASL login

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: bf3ac5537bb8e80f617e76f595bbf401 irssi-1.1.3-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 53e6af37b3eb75ffb6aa369d2a766b47 irssi-1.1.3-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 728c7508b93256f015236454dff08eaf irssi-1.1.3-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 6e3f8cb271fdfdb8523df3eb9e019caf irssi-1.1.3-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: b1c438b81211f9bf16c36ec099320741 irssi-1.1.3-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 8b23ad699304ad982dfba5369b40acd0 irssi-1.1.3-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: c8fbbb826aa35c57c85f6bda51e05059 n/irssi-1.2.1-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: ce52be384aa2231bc02765669363a2c6 n/irssi-1.2.1-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue package update Slackware stable release irssi SASL login

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg irssi-1.1.3-i586-1_slack14.2.txz