news 28 Posted March 26, 2016 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] libevent (SSA:2016-085-01) New libevent 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/libevent-2.0.22-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Multiple integer overflows in the evbuffer API allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other unspecified impact via "insanely large inputs" to the (1) evbuffer_add, (2) evbuffer_expand, or (3) bufferevent_write function, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow or an infinite loop. For more information, see: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6272 (* 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 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/libevent-2.0.22-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/libevent-2.0.22-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/libevent-2.0.22-i586-1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libevent-2.0.22-x86_64-1.txz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 14.1 package: ab84c0702044de88f1b051ed3d3d1c40 libevent-2.0.22-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: bc5d1dff8d2f3758b0feddf00d2c6229 libevent-2.0.22-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz Slackware -current package: b195a6e34b8ce7043da6cd57670db4a7 l/libevent-2.0.22-i586-1.txz Slackware x86_64 -current package: 7a755ece3e378f244a3c327369e7f2ac l/libevent-2.0.22-x86_64-1.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libevent-2.0.22-i486-1_slack14.1.txz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security ( -at -) slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Share this post Link to post
