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Slackware: 2021-102-01 Critical: Dnsmasq Remote Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey April 12, 2021
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated dnsmasq software for Slackware released to rectify a significant security vulnerability impacting several variants.
New dnsmasq 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/dnsmasq-2.85-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Use random source ports where possible if source addresses/interfaces in use. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3448 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical remote code execution slackware package fix dnsmasq

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: 7d0ff35603adc623f6d0d092e2ae7b73 dnsmasq-2.85-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 52e7321abb0de85d4aebb04bc4d94d29 dnsmasq-2.85-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: ccd33444ea0c3ac0a155135e70fac8d5 dnsmasq-2.85-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: cbf13e195fba47c7dd47c4deede09b60 dnsmasq-2.85-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: 9dc9992ffa10bc78f74b7853e0814a06 dnsmasq-2.85-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: b367f50cce9dd38aacf38a4b1aa49586 dnsmasq-2.85-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: fc14c887f45a300a886166848546b5ed n/dnsmasq-2.85-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: d4cf8d9f6068485b24f27dd67b55071f n/dnsmasq-2.85-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical remote code execution slackware package fix dnsmasq

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg dnsmasq-2.85-i586-1_slack14.2.txz Then restart dnsmasq if you use it: # /etc/rc.d/rc.dnsmasq restart

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