[slackware-security] libevent

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:

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:
https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2014-6272
(* 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 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:

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:

Upgrade the package as root:
> upgradepkg libevent-2.0.22-i486-1_slack14.1.txz