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Slackware: 2020-232-01 Critical: curl libcurl Connection Issue

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Calendar Grey August 19, 2020
Dist Slackware Esm H88
The curl libraries for Slackware versions 14.0 to 14.2 have been revised due to a significant vulnerability requiring immediate downloads and patching.
New curl 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/curl-7.72.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: libcurl: wrong connect-only connection [98] For more information, see: https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2020-8231.html https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8231 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical slackware curl software package libcurl issue

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: 31aee2a732314bd413b5aaf33080ac88 curl-7.72.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 19e9dd1f05e47dba32e0ef5f1ebd4634 curl-7.72.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 9d115b97a1f5a79c47ebd0505322b13d curl-7.72.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: d5d9bae33c307bd62716e3f6fa43965b curl-7.72.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: a99fc33b4255a92295f4dfc689d07f14 curl-7.72.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 9a6feb52277c1456e47462dba54fb7ee curl-7.72.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 7973ec1d64cce7598d2db39a18feb493 n/curl-7.72.0-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 72af835c81783bd056df6feab8299644 n/curl-7.72.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical slackware curl software package libcurl issue

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg curl-7.72.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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