news 28 Posted July 29, 2008 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] vim (SSA:2008-210-10) New vim packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues. More details about this issue may be found here: http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim.html Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/vim-7.1.330-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz: Upgraded to vim-7.1.330. This fixes several security issues related to the automatic processing of untrusted files. For more information, see: http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim.html (* Security fix *) patches/packages/vim-gvim-7.1.330-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz: Upgraded to vim-gvim-7.1.330. See "vim" above for details. (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading directly from ftp.slackware.com. Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating additional 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 11.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patches/packages/vim-7.1.330-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patches/packages/vim-gvim-7.1.330-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz Updated packages for Slackware 12.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/vim-7.1.330-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/vim-gvim-7.1.330-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz Updated packages for Slackware 12.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/patches/packages/vim-7.1.330-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/patches/packages/vim-gvim-7.1.330-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz Updated packages for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/ap/vim-7.1.330-i486-1.tgz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/xap/vim-gvim-7.1.330-i486-1.tgz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 11.0 packages: 64e048da0cb73ac3f9c88da8e6936dba vim-7.1.330-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz 768f50ec4d6ade1a2a7e48abb74a349f vim-gvim-7.1.330-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz Slackware 12.0 packages: 9217c35b78117440771dc969e3e01cb8 vim-7.1.330-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz 2b023a1d7b6bd33258ba86d3a71ce21a vim-gvim-7.1.330-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz Slackware 12.1 packages: 0ca3022524333f2399463dc838c7be69 vim-7.1.330-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz 2cc80e4171409a6cc11de63d5fef9814 vim-gvim-7.1.330-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz Slackware -current packages: 52fa9f16856191656e02d1b3cb2c9a21 vim-7.1.330-i486-1.tgz 8579e841c779af8916299cc69c0bf663 vim-gvim-7.1.330-i486-1.tgz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg vim-7.1.330-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz vim-gvim-7.1.330-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security ( -at -) slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Share this post Link to post