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Slackware 15.0: 2022-104-03 Moderate: Xz File Overwrite Issue

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Calendar Grey April 14, 2022
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Latest xz updates released for Slackware 14.x and -current to rectify a major vulnerability related to file processing.
New xz packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/xz-5.2.5-i586-4_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a security issue: xzgrep applied to a crafted file name with two or more newlines can no longer overwrite an arbitrary, attacker-selected file. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1271 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue update file overwrite moderate threat slackware xz package

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 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/xz-5.2.5-i586-4_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/xz-5.2.5-x86_64-4_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.0 package: 4835722bc7066487363c2b8dda562105 xz-5.2.5-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 2ca6548bd35db4f5b5eaefe90c6070e2 xz-5.2.5-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 35cd2b7b3f0bf24a81abd05a80e8c344 xz-5.2.5-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 06043e25eaa9f4f8d336afa0023ee232 xz-5.2.5-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: 044d7f03cf85a715d799e8958ddc68c3 xz-5.2.5-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 4e7967ca1fe883c106def6f645b01277 xz-5.2.5-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware 15.0 package: 958add191fc9193317814c57fe5e397f xz-5.2.5-i586-4_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: af5cd05a54de11889a90f5309d65af7a xz-5.2.5-x86_64-4_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: a105af7063968ce0c4373359247b05a1 a/xz-5.2.5-i586-4.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 7b9a9cbec402562daf8411eecc886498 a/xz-5.2.5-x86_64-4.txz

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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue update file overwrite moderate threat slackware xz package

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg xz-5.2.5-i586-4_slack15.0.txz

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