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Slackware 15.0: 2022-307-02 Urgent: OpenSSL Vulnerability Mitigation

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2022
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates for Mozilla NSS in Slackware 15.0 resolve a serious segmentation fault vulnerability. Ensure you upgrade immediately.
New mozilla-nss packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-nss-3.84-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed a segmentation fault when the server requests a client auth cert but the client has no certs in its database. Thanks to marav for the heads-up. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3479 (* Security fix *)

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 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 440cb7f7a31a430bf4836cb54f9467fe mozilla-nss-3.84-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 8db734996584187fd58079c600ddfb19 mozilla-nss-3.84-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 69a4a1d890241e5baf8b298e226f8051 l/mozilla-nss-3.84-i586-2.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: d7eaad262e86e74b745eab699f8772a5 l/mozilla-nss-3.84-x86_64-2.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-nss-3.84-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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