Slackware 14.1, 14.2, 15.0 Security Update: Libarchive Patch
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December 9, 2022
New libarchive packages are available for Slackware 14.1, 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix security issues
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libarchive-3.6.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This is a bugfix and security release. Relevant bugfixes: rar5 reader: fix possible garbled output with bsdtar -O (#1745) mtree reader: support reading mtree files with tabs (#1783) Security fixes: various small fixes for issues found by CodeQL (* Security fix *)
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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 14.1:
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:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 14.1 package:
120412a3a1d3546881bbf3ce352bf7d7 libarchive-3.6.2-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
39273c189c4d71bfadf85e4b74725eeb libarchive-3.6.2-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package:
6cbd377811318b1df06e897f68eed391 libarchive-3.6.2-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
ae2cff0b6665f38d928d8c5026a51209 libarchive-3.6.2-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware 15.0 package:
56db21a5318598e49fca530170364939 libarchive-3.6.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
d9925bb092083e1a11385e30152e0acb libarchive-3.6.2-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package:
8a4c7b78f42d318989dd45fd91e1fca5 l/libarchive-3.6.2-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
82add188b69fcba8d0a086ba8cf7f8a6 l/libarchive-3.6.2-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libarchive-3.6.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
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