[slackware-security] ktorrent

New ktorrent packages are available for Slackware 11.0 and -current to fix security issues. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-1384 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-1385 Here are the details from th...

[slackware-security] libwpd

New libwpd packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix security issues. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-002 Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog:...

Integer overflow

Integer overflow in the ktruser function in NetBSD-current before 20061022, NetBSD 3 and 3-0 before 20061024, and NetBSD 2 before 20070209, when the kernel is built with the COMPATFREEBSD or COMPATDARWIN option, allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges...

[slackware-security] x11

New x11 X.Org packages are available for Slackware 10.2, and -current to fix security issues due to overflows in font parsing. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-3739...

Slackware 10.2 / current : firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey (SSA:2006-257-03)

New Firefox and Thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. In addition, a new SeaMonkey package is available for Slackware -current to fix similar issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks i...

[slackware-security] x11

New x11 packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. In addition, fontconfig and freetype have been split out from the x11 packages in -current, so if you run -current you'll also need to install those new packages. More details about the issues may be found here...

pinball privilege escalation

Shared library is loaded from current directory...

Slackware 10.2 / current : firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey (SSA:2006-155-02)

New Firefox and Thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. In addition, a new SeaMonkey package is available for Slackware -current to fix similar issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks i...

[slackware-security] mysql

New mysql packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. The MySQL package shipped with Slackware 10.2 may possibly leak sensitive information found in uninitialized memory to authenticated users. The MySQL package previously in Slackware -current also suffered fro...

[slackware-security] firefox

New Firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix a security issue. More details about the issues may be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlfirefox1.5.0.3 Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] thunderbird

New Thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlthunderbird Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] mozilla security/EOL

New Mozilla packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2 and -current to fix multiple security issues. More details about the issues may be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlmozilla Also note that this release marks the EOL End Of Life for the...

CVE-2006-1797

The CVE-2006-1797 entry describes a local denial-of-service in NetBSD-current kernels released before 28 September 2005. A local attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference by issuing the SIOCGIFALIAS ioctl to query information about a non-existent network alias, causing a system crash. The a...

CVE-2006-1775

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in phpBB 2.0.19 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 Site Description field in a adminboard.php, the 2 Group name and 3 Group description fields in b admingroups.php and c groupcp.php, the 4 Theme Name field in d...

CVE-2006-1775

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in phpBB 2.0.19 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 Site Description field in a adminboard.php, the 2 Group name and 3 Group description fields in b admingroups.php and c groupcp.php, the 4 Theme Name field in d...

Stack overflow

Stack-based buffer overflow in Python 2.4.2 and earlier, running on Linux 2.6.12.5 under gcc 4.0.3 with libc 2.3.5, allows local users to cause a "stack overflow," and possibly gain privileges, by running a script from a current working directory that has a long name, related to the realpath...

[slackware-security] imagemagick

New imagemagick packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2005-4601 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-0082 Here are the details from...

NView / XNView multimedia viewer / browser privilege escalation

Dynamic libraries from current directory are loaded on startup...

CVE-2005-3533

Buffer overflow in OSH before 1.7-15 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long current working directory and filename...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : elm mailer (SSA:2005-311-01)

New Elm packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. A buffer overflow in the parsing of the Expires header could allow arbitrary code to be executed as the user running Elm. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...