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Slackware: 2024-044-02 Critical Dnsmasq Update for DNSSEC Validation

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Calendar Grey February 14, 2024
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Critical dnsmasq packages for Slackware 15.0 resolve significant issues and enforce resource limits on DNSSEC validation.
New dnsmasq packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/dnsmasq-2.90-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Add limits on the resources used to do DNSSEC validation. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-50387 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-50868 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Slackware security issues dnsmasq resource limits

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: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/dnsmasq-2.90-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/dnsmasq-2.90-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/dnsmasq-2.90-i586-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/dnsmasq-2.90-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 5c3dee26922dd2a3f58d1e5c70f9f284 dnsmasq-2.90-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 35f4d14b31baf2de9e3910f0f052f25d dnsmasq-2.90-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 1210b07b47998ab00dcf6cc7e3c9dd30 n/dnsmasq-2.90-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 9862a73b6a5462656da236cd0ec4f9c2 n/dnsmasq-2.90-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Slackware security issues dnsmasq resource limits

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg dnsmasq-2.90-i586-1_slack15.0.txz Then restart dnsmasq if you are using it: # sh /etc/rc.d/rc.dnsmasq restart

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