news 28 Posted February 23, 2016 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] glibc (SSA:2016-054-02) New glibc packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/glibc-2.17-i486-11_slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. This update provides a patch to fix the stack-based buffer overflow in libresolv that could allow specially crafted DNS responses to seize control of execution flow in the DNS client (CVE-2015-7547). However, due to a patch applied to Slackware's glibc back in 2009 (don't use the gethostbyname4() lookup method as it was causing some cheap routers to misbehave), we were not vulnerable to that issue. Nevertheless it seems prudent to patch the overflows anyway even if we're not currently using the code in question. Thanks to mancha for the backported patch. For more information, see: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7547 (* Security fix *) patches/packages/glibc-i18n-2.17-i486-11_slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/glibc-profile-2.17-i486-11_slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/glibc-solibs-2.17-i486-11_slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-) Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for additional mirror sites near you. Updated packages for Slackware 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/glibc-2.17-i486-11_slack14.1.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/glibc-i18n-2.17-i486-11_slack14.1.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/glibc-profile-2.17-i486-11_slack14.1.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/glibc-solibs-2.17-i486-11_slack14.1.txz Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/glibc-2.17-x86_64-11_slack14.1.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/glibc-i18n-2.17-x86_64-11_slack14.1.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/glibc-profile-2.17-x86_64-11_slack14.1.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/glibc-solibs-2.17-x86_64-11_slack14.1.txz Updated packages for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/a/glibc-solibs-2.23-i586-1.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/glibc-2.23-i586-1.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/glibc-i18n-2.23-i586-1.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/glibc-profile-2.23-i586-1.txz Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/a/glibc-solibs-2.23-x86_64-1.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/glibc-2.23-x86_64-1.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/glibc-i18n-2.23-x86_64-1.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/glibc-profile-2.23-x86_64-1.txz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 14.1 packages: 4c56432d638adc8098661cfa818b5bc9 glibc-2.17-i486-11_slack14.1.txz 5c316d6b0a8970fe15fbdf2adff8de19 glibc-i18n-2.17-i486-11_slack14.1.txz a937d842e5ca3d0b125230c23285f8f4 glibc-profile-2.17-i486-11_slack14.1.txz 442f01d094d350612c1fb1fcb5e7fbe7 glibc-solibs-2.17-i486-11_slack14.1.txz Slackware x86_64 14.1 packages: eec88d584a79909ec79aae1c43c330d3 glibc-2.17-x86_64-11_slack14.1.txz d8b396eb6ada65d1555e3cf0fb8246c2 glibc-i18n-2.17-x86_64-11_slack14.1.txz e7deaabfe3e467cbde10ba5b7748bbbb glibc-profile-2.17-x86_64-11_slack14.1.txz 629c93f0e510d354ff66e61f1ebe8b67 glibc-solibs-2.17-x86_64-11_slack14.1.txz Slackware -current packages: b11873e4f851a600b57a2e7a2ac8f472 a/glibc-solibs-2.23-i586-1.txz 5116eec63fab5e7dbc58d27fecd48684 l/glibc-2.23-i586-1.txz ae9b8a8e4ead59aa398212d6893d7ddc l/glibc-i18n-2.23-i586-1.txz 61154e43ee4c0739dd5d3c4ce3b60ae6 l/glibc-profile-2.23-i586-1.txz Slackware x86_64 -current packages: c48a55c8a39dc8e17e04796e4f160bd0 a/glibc-solibs-2.23-x86_64-1.txz 36104e1a004b0e97d193c2132f18222d l/glibc-2.23-x86_64-1.txz e0415f66d17323c8f6df339cfd49051b l/glibc-i18n-2.23-x86_64-1.txz f5433793e9da696a60f2445559f1d33f l/glibc-profile-2.23-x86_64-1.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg glibc-*.txz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security ( -at -) slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Share this post Link to post