CVE-2005-0087

The CVE affects Red Hat Linux 4: the alsa-lib package disables stack-protection in libasound.so, allowing potential arbitrary-code execution when combined with other vulnerabilities. This is documented as CAN-2005-0087 and RHSA-2005:033. A patched alsa-lib update addressing stack-execution protec...

CVE-2005-0087

The alsa-lib package in Red Hat Linux 4 disables stack protection for the libasound.so library, which makes it easier for attackers to execute arbitrary code if there are other vulnerabilities in the library...

kernel security updates

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 9.1 and -current to fix security issues. Also available are new kernel modules packages including alsa-driver, and a new version of the hotplug package for Slackware 9.1 containing some fixes for using 2.4.26 and 2.6.x kernel modules. The most serio...