A curl security update has been released for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues.

slackware-security: curl (SSA:2020-344-01)

[slackware-security] curl (SSA:2020-344-01)

New curl packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to
fix security issues.

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog:
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patches/packages/curl-7.74.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded.
This release includes the following security related bugfixes:
Inferior OCSP verification [93]
FTP wildcard stack overflow [95]
Trusting FTP PASV responses [97]
For more information, see:
  https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8286
  https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8285
  https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8284
(* 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/curl-7.74.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/curl-7.74.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/curl-7.74.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/curl-7.74.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz

Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/curl-7.74.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/curl-7.74.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/curl-7.73.0-i586-1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/curl-7.74.0-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 14.0 package:
06a63eeec2a9fd5fed4a76eda3c7751a curl-7.74.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
81d040e2e3b708bccd7a40d3f24ea2c0 curl-7.74.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz

Slackware 14.1 package:
aadc0237d637fcd3893ed5e93ee23806 curl-7.74.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
01cf380a4bf895fb723e6301883264b7 curl-7.74.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz

Slackware 14.2 package:
d5d8260c0b5927d79dc013e04f81c81c curl-7.74.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
8b7d6ad9f15b5ec6020bd07d94f2afc2 curl-7.74.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz

Slackware -current package:
6b0d48b4a33ae2911650b41ea8ccc9ed n/curl-7.73.0-i586-1.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
07fe0b18000d2b3706d3d22262107d9d n/curl-7.74.0-x86_64-1.txz

Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg curl-7.74.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz