news 28 Posted April 10, 2017 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] vim (SSA:2017-100-01) New vim packages are available for Slackware 14.0 and 14.1 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/vim-7.4.399-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. In Vim 7.3+ but prior to 7.4.399, blowfish encryption is weak. Upgrade to Vim 7.4.399 to address this issue. For more information, see: https://dgl.cx/2014/10/vim-blowfish (* Security fix *) patches/packages/vim-gvim-7.4.399-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. +--------------------------+ 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 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/vim-7.4.399-i486-1_slack14.0.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/vim-gvim-7.4.399-i486-1_slack14.0.txz Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/vim-7.4.399-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/vim-gvim-7.4.399-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz Updated packages for Slackware 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/vim-7.4.399-i486-1_slack14.1.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/vim-gvim-7.4.399-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/vim-7.4.399-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/vim-gvim-7.4.399-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 14.0 packages: 21a80997408229ddeb4890f7f23c132d vim-7.4.399-i486-1_slack14.0.txz 49ae67d217ff76984956c77dcb2ab9c7 vim-gvim-7.4.399-i486-1_slack14.0.txz Slackware x86_64 14.0 packages: a57fb5404c917c5c57a1ed1e71b0fb59 vim-7.4.399-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz 0c6d3bb6ce48fa164dccdc47bd79abd5 vim-gvim-7.4.399-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz Slackware 14.1 packages: 88a931719416ee4ac8215edcea33dd97 vim-7.4.399-i486-1_slack14.1.txz 84e81ae1bf120296428a5483f3ca5e44 vim-gvim-7.4.399-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Slackware x86_64 14.1 packages: ec253ff56d8633065f90bdb0207b8051 vim-7.4.399-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz 5925fa810029997d450e2b598eed8b06 vim-gvim-7.4.399-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg vim-7.4.399-i486-1_slack14.1.txz vim-gvim-7.4.399-i486-1_slack14.1.txz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security ( -at -) slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Share this post Link to post