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Slackware: 2021-02-08 Urgent: Fix for Curl Security Vulnerability Addressed

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Calendar Grey July 21, 2021
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated curl distributions for Slackware address significant problems, such as security vulnerabilities and directory path discrepancies.
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-7.78.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: CURLOPT_SSLCERT mixup with Secure Transport TELNET stack contents disclosure again Bad connection reuse due to flawed path name checks Metalink download sends credentials Wrong content via metalink not discarded For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-22926 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-22925 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-22924 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-22923 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-22922 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue security patch Slackware curl credential leak path flaw

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: 36c0577e4fb5ec3916ca08723c02745d curl-7.78.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 89bdac9fbe9219ff4feb03a2c879bea9 curl-7.78.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: b5fbcd000bf09c0a46d1ad6ff369f91a curl-7.78.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 53d76579584b6ede3487d7f7eb915ba9 curl-7.78.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: 91be99e064eda0e0f6099495ba21117d curl-7.78.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: c99a8249e4b1b37dc01c17545d6346e3 curl-7.78.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 305305032335ed9455dd253f331b43f7 n/curl-7.78.0-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 0cb3ee1ff68eac68483d529146a28b23 n/curl-7.78.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue security patch Slackware curl credential leak path flaw

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg curl-7.78.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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