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Posted on 28 March 2016
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[slackware-security] libevent (SSA:2016-085-01)
New libevent packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to
fix security issues.
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog:
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patches/packages/libevent-2.0.22-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded.
Multiple integer overflows in the evbuffer API allow context-dependent
attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other unspecified
impact via "insanely large inputs" to the (1) evbuffer_add,
(2) evbuffer_expand, or (3) bufferevent_write function, which triggers a
heap-based buffer overflow or an infinite loop.
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6272
(* 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 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/libevent-2.0.22-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/libevent-2.0.22-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/libevent-2.0.22-i586-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libevent-2.0.22-x86_64-1.txz
MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 14.1 package:
ab84c0702044de88f1b051ed3d3d1c40 libevent-2.0.22-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
bc5d1dff8d2f3758b0feddf00d2c6229 libevent-2.0.22-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package:
b195a6e34b8ce7043da6cd57670db4a7 l/libevent-2.0.22-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
7a755ece3e378f244a3c327369e7f2ac l/libevent-2.0.22-x86_64-1.txz
Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg libevent-2.0.22-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
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