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Posted on 03 March 2016
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[slackware-security] mailx (SSA:2016-062-01)
New mailx packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1,
and -current to fix security issues.
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog:
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patches/packages/mailx-12.5-i486-2_slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt.
Drop SSLv2 support (no longer supported by OpenSSL), and fix security issues
that could allow a local attacker to cause mailx to execute arbitrary
shell commands through the use of a specially-crafted email address.
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-2771
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7844
(* 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 13.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.0/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.0/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware 13.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.1/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware 13.37:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.37/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.37/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-i486-2_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-x86_64-2_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-i486-2_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/mailx-12.5-x86_64-2_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/mailx-12.5-i586-2.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/mailx-12.5-x86_64-2.txz
MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 13.0 package:
38ee95ec8ed3dfdaf2f736e3e0e3fc39 mailx-12.5-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package:
1df63fd2f328a10beca73a155b79ff3c mailx-12.5-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package:
7ed6abe0adf99fe6cc2a820ca7b4086d mailx-12.5-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package:
991ac2b0121330bdb3ecd1f32f62d53c mailx-12.5-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package:
5f8ddb457a40ebbb5ea83b086c2ca964 mailx-12.5-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package:
9898bb8aa35e1c7ea21898aafe2de0e6 mailx-12.5-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package:
8a52d8cf54387eb6de3a00a90334694b mailx-12.5-i486-2_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
abe166a6d5e80195f6a07213ad0f89c9 mailx-12.5-x86_64-2_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
39496e377649bc8c5ed75c15dc9d2505 mailx-12.5-i486-2_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
cded8a78db70f0e5208475c988b4facb mailx-12.5-x86_64-2_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package:
2c416a0e6e988dac27b99bb5eda67224 n/mailx-12.5-i586-2.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
237538b03e07025f97eb21708fda82bc n/mailx-12.5-x86_64-2.txz
Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg mailx-12.5-i486-2_slack14.1.txz
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