news 28 Posted July 11, 2017 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] libtirpc (SSA:2017-191-01) New libtirpc packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/libtirpc-1.0.1-i586-3_slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. Patched a bug which can cause a denial of service through memory exhaustion. Thanks to Robby Workman. For more information, see: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8779 (* 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 14.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/libtirpc-1.0.1-i586-3_slack14.2.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/libtirpc-1.0.1-x86_64-3_slack14.2.txz Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/libtirpc-1.0.1-i586-3.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/libtirpc-1.0.1-x86_64-3.txz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 14.2 package: 657f5777679340f53b9d83a9e045b538 libtirpc-1.0.1-i586-3_slack14.2.txz Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 1de6989d62f43dde664f75de81546210 libtirpc-1.0.1-x86_64-3_slack14.2.txz Slackware -current package: e17305b305661ded4c06ace0751add14 n/libtirpc-1.0.1-i586-3.txz Slackware x86_64 -current package: 77d083376bd92cf7a3d4cdfa3ff0c2e4 n/libtirpc-1.0.1-x86_64-3.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libtirpc-1.0.1-i586-3_slack14.2.txz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security ( -at -) slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Share this post Link to post
