Slackware 1129 Published by

A libksba security update has been released for Slackware 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix a security issue.




slackware-security: libksba (SSA:2022-281-01)



[slackware-security] libksba (SSA:2022-281-01)

New libksba packages are available for Slackware 14.2, 15.0, and -current to
fix a security issue.

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog:
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patches/packages/libksba-1.6.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.
Detect a possible overflow directly in the TLV parser.
This patch detects possible integer overflows immmediately when creating
the TI object.
Reported-by: ZDI-CAN-18927, ZDI-CAN-18928, ZDI-CAN-18929
(* Security fix *)
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Where to find the new packages:
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to the Slackware project! :-)

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Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/libksba-1.6.2-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/libksba-1.6.2-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz

Updated package for Slackware 15.0:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/libksba-1.6.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/libksba-1.6.2-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/libksba-1.6.2-i586-1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/libksba-1.6.2-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 14.2 package:
e2ee393e20d8128edf7bd4954064f2df libksba-1.6.2-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
4183a05f6f7c56f6f13f4183763adc7c libksba-1.6.2-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz

Slackware 15.0 package:
6b5a1099ca9448b54adcb46d897d652c libksba-1.6.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
95a929a8a735fce48af70acf27666fb3 libksba-1.6.2-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

Slackware -current package:
dce3cc01ca8b165c489de837cbb3ece2 n/libksba-1.6.2-i586-1.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
4c3ec51a2ffcf45612f528d6647277d9 n/libksba-1.6.2-x86_64-1.txz

Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg libksba-1.6.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz