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Slackware 14.x: 2020-176-01 Moderate: Curl Local File Overwrite

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Calendar Grey June 24, 2020
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Enhanced curl updates for Slackware resolve vulnerabilities related to local file overwrites and DNS leaks. Safeguard your system now.
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-7.71.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: curl overwrite local file with -J [111] Partial password leak over DNS on HTTP redirect [48] For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8177 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8169 (* 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 14.0:
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: 543a93181bfe5ef265594febef9b01f9 curl-7.71.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: ab2d93357aa5ce6f4ab6fcec0e52f19c curl-7.71.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 1957d2bc07b95f1d15eeb994d43dbe2f curl-7.71.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 4e22ea0b03c564b57ab37f24f594619d curl-7.71.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: 9ed5fed890249c2ed2a7e65ab0356f12 curl-7.71.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 73e680b23886d2210082036a14a5b550 curl-7.71.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 7df19bce3edcfcb0ccf3cc1313e7f6f7 n/curl-7.71.0-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 294660a4daee5def015e89e3dcaa0dd4 n/curl-7.71.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg curl-7.71.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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