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Slackware 14.2: 2021-264-01 Moderate: Alpine Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey September 21, 2021
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates for alpine packages fix a denial of service vulnerability affecting multiple Slackware releases. Ensure your system is secure by upgrading promptly.
New alpine 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/alpine-2.25-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed a denial-of-service security issue where untagged responses from an IMAP server are accepted before STARTTLS. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-38370 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service moderate threat alpine slackware distribution

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: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/alpine-2.25-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/alpine-2.25-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/alpine-2.25-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/alpine-2.25-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/alpine-2.25-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64...

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MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.0 package: dc6c6e654668335fe8c5366ad22ca646 alpine-2.25-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 03e723d22b7b6e2f6014cb205582a600 alpine-2.25-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: d5163aee83e992f3d6dbd13af5a64055 alpine-2.25-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 89339d7df6a25407268ec4123e59cb09 alpine-2.25-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: 1131bff5cac947b879c4d000828e3f51 alpine-2.25-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: e966b110aff7b5b1ba815272ba0a50e7 alpine-2.25-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 9c46412f5972f758b445ffc02a1a9d4d n/alpine-2.25-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: cf2973e64125079c73b21be89dc46576 n/alpine-2.25-x86_64-1.txz

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security advisory denial of service moderate threat alpine slackware distribution

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg alpine-2.25-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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