New git packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue.
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog:GIT (SSA:2018-283-01) Updates for Slackware
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patches/packages/git-2.14.5-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes a security issue:
Submodules' "URL"s come from the untrusted .gitmodules file, but we
blindly gave it to "git clone" to clone submodules when "git clone
--recurse-submodules" was used to clone a project that has such a
submodule. The code has been hardened to reject such malformed URLs
(e.g. one that begins with a dash). Credit for finding and fixing this
vulnerability goes to joernchen and Jeff King, respectively.
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17456
(* Security fix *)
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Where to find the new packages:
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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 14.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/git-2.14.5-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/git-2.14.5-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/git-2.14.5-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/git-2.14.5-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/git-2.14.5-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/git-2.14.5-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/d/git-2.19.1-i586-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/d/git-2.19.1-x86_64-1.txz
MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 14.0 package:
40f5f0b8654c01cf8c9ea0162481c3d8 git-2.14.5-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
9f55b0f46f910514b7cab522bdb634fc git-2.14.5-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
64a2f53cd09cbab61ee764de43c6c319 git-2.14.5-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
25ac3ee0db49645eb0f2b895c0b23148 git-2.14.5-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package:
8d4a1a8eb0bc0a62a6520e0b5de14889 git-2.14.5-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
99ab6ab1d4685a81252893db01d63c5a git-2.14.5-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package:
842760c6310c5ed063d2f590adf390b8 d/git-2.19.1-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
0ffa45649ab6ffeb950a7e0eeaf2aa8f d/git-2.19.1-x86_64-1.txz
Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg git-2.14.5-i586-1_slack14.2.txz