news 28 Posted March 3, 2016 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] mailx (SSA:2016-062-01) New mailx packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/mailx-12.5-i486-2_slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. Drop SSLv2 support (no longer supported by OpenSSL), and fix security issues that could allow a local attacker to cause mailx to execute arbitrary shell commands through the use of a specially-crafted email address. For more information, see: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-2771 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7844 (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ 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 package for Slackware 13.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.0/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-i486-1_slack13.0.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.0/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz Updated package for Slackware 13.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-i486-1_slack13.1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.1/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz Updated package for Slackware 13.37: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.37/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-i486-1_slack13.37.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.37/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz Updated package for Slackware 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-i486-2_slack14.0.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-x86_64-2_slack14.0.txz Updated package for Slackware 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-i486-2_slack14.1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-x86_64-2_slack14.1.txz Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/mailx-12.5-i586-2.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/mailx-12.5-x86_64-2.txz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 13.0 package: 38ee95ec8ed3dfdaf2f736e3e0e3fc39 mailx-12.5-i486-1_slack13.0.txz Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 1df63fd2f328a10beca73a155b79ff3c mailx-12.5-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz Slackware 13.1 package: 7ed6abe0adf99fe6cc2a820ca7b4086d mailx-12.5-i486-1_slack13.1.txz Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: 991ac2b0121330bdb3ecd1f32f62d53c mailx-12.5-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz Slackware 13.37 package: 5f8ddb457a40ebbb5ea83b086c2ca964 mailx-12.5-i486-1_slack13.37.txz Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 9898bb8aa35e1c7ea21898aafe2de0e6 mailx-12.5-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz Slackware 14.0 package: 8a52d8cf54387eb6de3a00a90334694b mailx-12.5-i486-2_slack14.0.txz Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: abe166a6d5e80195f6a07213ad0f89c9 mailx-12.5-x86_64-2_slack14.0.txz Slackware 14.1 package: 39496e377649bc8c5ed75c15dc9d2505 mailx-12.5-i486-2_slack14.1.txz Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: cded8a78db70f0e5208475c988b4facb mailx-12.5-x86_64-2_slack14.1.txz Slackware -current package: 2c416a0e6e988dac27b99bb5eda67224 n/mailx-12.5-i586-2.txz Slackware x86_64 -current package: 237538b03e07025f97eb21708fda82bc n/mailx-12.5-x86_64-2.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mailx-12.5-i486-2_slack14.1.txz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security ( -at -) slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Share this post Link to post
