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Slackware: 2019-354-01 Low Severity: OpenSSL Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey December 20, 2019
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Fresh OpenSSL updates issued for Slackware addressing a minor vulnerability that affects overall system security.
New openssl packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssl-1.0.2u-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a low severity security issue: Fixed an an overflow bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring procedure used in exponentiation with 512-bit moduli. For more information, see: https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20191206.txt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-1551 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue package update slackware low severity openssl

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: 3702a752b6916911666b3bd372b043ce openssl-1.0.2u-i586-1_slack14.2.txz 4648eb489834f226169bf13e2ee06061 openssl-solibs-1.0.2u-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 packages: c114da2209510d47b59ded5af7dd8610 openssl-1.0.2u-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz e4b1c5a3f87e7cd92e05ec19c52e9761 openssl-solibs-1.0.2u-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current packages: fee7474fb4e0be59a0a1da866cfe4f5b a/openssl10-solibs-1.0.2u-i586-1.txz b3e7d484a352406ba822ddf5f6dbe9ff n/openssl10-1.0.2u-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: 1f180cb72a66080dcf7fc95083197cab a/openssl10-solibs-1.0.2u-x86_64-1.txz 6d269275da2fb00f13df65a5b12edd37 n/openssl10-1.0.2u-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue package update slackware low severity openssl

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg openssl-1.0.2u-i586-1_slack14.2.txz openssl-solibs-1.0.2u-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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