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Slackware 14.2: 2020-043-01 Critical: Libarchive Security Fix

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Calendar Grey February 12, 2020
Dist Slackware Esm H88
The latest libarchive updates for Slackware 14.1 and 14.2 tackle significant security vulnerabilities. It's crucial to upgrade immediately to ensure your system's safety.
New libarchive packages are available for Slackware 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libarchive-3.4.2-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update includes security fixes in the RAR5 reader. (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory package update security fix slackware libarchive

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 14.1:
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 14.1 package: 06951c059869635bdbde2ead0a50e9de libarchive-3.4.2-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 57b1658959057ef8476248490b4e229a libarchive-3.4.2-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: a119da1bc8d4a760cf28df615c2ba215 libarchive-3.4.2-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 3e386a3569f3965d2bc7c1e7ff88e39e libarchive-3.4.2-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 0700543cb6e4ecf9f6324c283f1fd354 l/libarchive-3.4.2-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 4136e17bc25686da4cf20790d592b2a6 l/libarchive-3.4.2-x86_64-1.txz

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security advisory package update security fix slackware libarchive

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libarchive-3.4.2-i486-1_slack14.1.txz

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