news 28 Posted March 28, 2011 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] shadow (SSA:2011-086-03) New shadow packages are available for Slackware 13.1 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/shadow-4.1.4.3-i486-1_slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt. This release fixes a security issue where local users may be able to add themselves to NIS groups through chfn and chsh. For more information, see: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-0721 (* Security fix *) Thanks to Gary Langshaw for collecting important additional patches from svn. +--------------------------+ 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 package for Slackware 13.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/patches/packages/shadow-4.1.4.3-i486-1_slack13.1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.1/patches/packages/shadow-4.1.4.3-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/a/shadow-4.1.4.3-i486-1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/a/shadow-4.1.4.3-x86_64-1.txz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 13.1 package: ba21ebb8fc8bc7b39644db3c5d4820da shadow-4.1.4.3-i486-1_slack13.1.txz Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: e693c9f69b414061de8041bdae8bed7a shadow-4.1.4.3-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz Slackware -current package: d7e43c3da5bbb677587bbf275235f306 shadow-4.1.4.3-i486-1.txz Slackware x86_64 -current package: cc6dc5cf8d04bb61d0589911db8f3f64 shadow-4.1.4.3-x86_64-1.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg shadow-4.1.4.3-i486-1_slack13.1.txz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security ( -at -) slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Share this post Link to post
