From: Slackware Security Team <security@slackware.com>
To: slackware-security@slackware.com
Subject: [slackware-security] util-linux (SSA:2022-046-02)
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 12:05:04 -0800 (PST)





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[slackware-security] util-linux (SSA:2022-046-02)

New util-linux packages are available for Slackware 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/util-linux-2.37.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.
This release fixes a security issue in chsh(1) and chfn(8):
By default, these utilities had been linked with libreadline, which allows
the INPUTRC environment variable to be abused to produce an error message
containing data from an arbitrary file. So, don't link these utilities with
libreadline as it does not use secure_getenv() (or a similar concept), or
sanitize the config file path to avoid vulnerabilities that could occur in
set-user-ID or set-group-ID programs.
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-0563
(* 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 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/util-linux-2.37.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/util-linux-2.37.4-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/a/util-linux-2.37.4-i586-1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/a/util-linux-2.37.4-x86_64-1.txz


MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 15.0 package:
4f6ae22bc5a8d10c6951e9f1cd1f11d2 util-linux-2.37.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
6873f27ad3bee3ff102fcc4dab4e74b3 util-linux-2.37.4-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

Slackware -current package:
f29f2c96f589c4b37f1c78d45daa4b18 a/util-linux-2.37.4-i586-1.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
f2cc4b88de5b09fb5db61c71acaa30c2 a/util-linux-2.37.4-x86_64-1.txz


Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg util-linux-2.37.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz


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