-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] ppp (SSA:2015-111-11) New ppp 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: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/ppp-2.4.5-i486-3_slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. Fixed a potential security issue in parsing option files. Fixed remotely triggerable PID overflow that causes pppd to crash. For more information, see: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3158 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3310 (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ 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/ppp-2.4.4-i486-2_slack13.0.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.0/patches/packages/ppp-2.4.4-i486-2_slack13.0.txz Updated package for Slackware 13.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/patches/packages/ppp-2.4.5-i486-2_slack13.1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.1/patches/packages/ppp-2.4.5-x86_64-2_slack13.1.txz Updated package for Slackware 13.37: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.37/patches/packages/ppp-2.4.5-i486-2_slack13.37.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.37/patches/packages/ppp-2.4.5-x86_64-2_slack13.37.txz Updated package for Slackware 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/ppp-2.4.5-i486-2_slack14.0.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/ppp-2.4.5-x86_64-2_slack14.0.txz Updated package for Slackware 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/ppp-2.4.5-i486-3_slack14.1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/ppp-2.4.5-x86_64-3_slack14.1.txz Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/ppp-2.4.7-i486-1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/ppp-2.4.7-x86_64-1.txz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 13.0 package: 30d20e64656991fdfb2017a32d311124 ppp-2.4.4-i486-2_slack13.0.txz Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: d6d3040cc8aab3b8b88198f0cc101491 ppp-2.4.4-i486-2_slack13.0.txz Slackware 13.1 package: d53159984b0b36c235b26dcee0b20bbd ppp-2.4.5-i486-2_slack13.1.txz Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: 884672494eb0a1a69a5a2eb41b106375 ppp-2.4.5-x86_64-2_slack13.1.txz Slackware 13.37 package: d53159984b0b36c235b26dcee0b20bbd ppp-2.4.5-i486-2_slack13.37.txz Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 884672494eb0a1a69a5a2eb41b106375 ppp-2.4.5-x86_64-2_slack13.37.txz Slackware 14.0 package: d53159984b0b36c235b26dcee0b20bbd ppp-2.4.5-i486-2_slack14.0.txz Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 884672494eb0a1a69a5a2eb41b106375 ppp-2.4.5-x86_64-2_slack14.0.txz Slackware 14.1 package: 0b687906618d09cf2bc93ef9a781d0d3 ppp-2.4.5-i486-3_slack14.1.txz Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: d8c95b3ba96c6bac307e2e0be6652f5e ppp-2.4.5-x86_64-3_slack14.1.txz Slackware -current package: ada5abf34078375e729a8bc0440daab6 n/ppp-2.4.7-i486-1.txz Slackware x86_64 -current package: ef6aa765fe16ac49b81f9d6a239f314a n/ppp-2.4.7-x86_64-1.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg ppp-2.4.5-i486-3_slack14.1.txz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security@slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | To leave the slackware-security mailing list: | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Send an email to majordomo@slackware.com with this text in the body of | | the email message: | | | | unsubscribe slackware-security | | | | You will get a confirmation message back containing instructions to | | complete the process. Please do not reply to this email address. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlU2zZYACgkQakRjwEAQIjPcSACdHXgJfPC/6gvhz+kawRVrJMGL s04AnRQ0VQUbMPX9sgVt+amvyNP5bgHj =/sBE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----