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Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2: 2021-159-02 High: OpenSSL Vulnerability Exploit

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Calendar Grey June 7, 2021
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates to httpd packages have been released for various Slackware versions, focusing on enhancing security measures and bolstering system reliability.
New httpd 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/httpd-2.4.48-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. mod_http2: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference. Unexpected section matching with 'MergeSlashes OFF'. mod_auth_digest: possible stack overflow by one nul byte while validating the Digest nonce. mod_session: Fix possible crash due to NULL pointer dereference, which could be used to cause a Denial of Service with a malicious backend server and SessionHeader. mod_session: Fix possible crash due to NULL pointer dereference, which could be used to cause a Denial of Service. mod_proxy_http: Fix possible crash due to NULL pointer dereference, which could be used to cause a Denial of Service. mod_proxy_wstunnel, mod_proxy_http: Handle Upgradable protocols end-to-end negotiation. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-31618

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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: 4f0a55562611068696fc6226b8e93557 httpd-2.4.48-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 9f8fe54dc02cb68a13d44b1ad79e4ebb httpd-2.4.48-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: c334d35be6d30453999c2ad23db88475 httpd-2.4.48-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: cf7e418101644df490a1a5e3992cf230 httpd-2.4.48-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: 4ff2c515e62b318f0dd271505bbc66d5 httpd-2.4.48-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 19874d3b39ed822829b586e1d58c502c httpd-2.4.48-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 1a5048b8fd29b6a5bf71ef513e12285d n/httpd-2.4.48-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 2a9add06087b868c2c5e9872d9a0a36a n/httpd-2.4.48-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg httpd-2.4.48-i586-1_slack14.2.txz Then, restart Apache httpd: # /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd stop # /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd start

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