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Slackware: 2019-254-01 Critical: Curl Buffer Overflow and Double-Free

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Calendar Grey September 12, 2019
Dist Slackware Esm H88
New curl binaries for Slackware are released to fix critical vulnerabilities like buffer overflows and double-free errors. Immediate installation is crucial
New curl 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/curl-7.66.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: FTP-KRB double-free TFTP small blocksize heap buffer overflow For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5481 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5482 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update buffer overflow slackware double-free curl

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: 44ee1285528d843bc87ab39283eff7b7 curl-7.66.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: f203a772ab56555078587f06f1e41464 curl-7.66.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: e366a62685183d30ebfcdb48e74c093b curl-7.66.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 5f72e7f03810e098a4da306d8a3454ac curl-7.66.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: a04ff4576a205b6900a7044f6e053b59 curl-7.66.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: b4fc8078a52cc28aa56796a6fa0d0ead curl-7.66.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 98f9cb998c6c40b28f4dc3a730916f06 n/curl-7.66.0-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: a33d1c6263cbf031080d1b220d25958a n/curl-7.66.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update buffer overflow slackware double-free curl

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg curl-7.66.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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