Slackware 15.0: 2024-099-01 Moderate Security Fix for Tar Error Reporting
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April 8, 2024
New libarchive 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/libarchive-3.7.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Fix possible vulnerability in tar error reporting introduced in f27c173 by JiaT75. For more information, see: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/f27c173d17dc807733b3a4f8c11207c3f04ff34f https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/2101 (* 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 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:
bc692c90578a2481490bb8dafe26c402 libarchive-3.7.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
000f0b1f75682c0c075cd946c0f149c9 libarchive-3.7.3-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package:
0d4b64d874931fbbc43c1de33de03c03 l/libarchive-3.7.3-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
a08b01ad133cb91972699e1a3e7a432f l/libarchive-3.7.3-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libarchive-3.7.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
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