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[slackware-security] samba DoS
New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0 and -current. These fix two denial of service vulnerabilities reported by iDEFENSE. Slackware -current has been upgraded to samba-3.0.7, while the samba-3.0.5 included with Slackware 10.0 has been patched to fix these issues. Sites running Samba...
[slackware-security] Qt
New Qt packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, and -current to fix security issues. Bugs in the routines that handle PNG, BMP, GIF, and JPEG images may allow an attacker to cause unauthorized code to execute when a specially crafted image file is processed. These flaws may also cause...
libpng
New libpng packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, and -current to fix security issues. These issues could cause program crashes, or possibly allow arbitrary code embedded in a malicious PNG image to execute. The PNG library is widely used within the system, so all sites should...
kdelibs
New kdelibs packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1 and -current to fix security issues with URI handling. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0411 Here are the details fr...
utempter security update
New utempter packages are available for Slackware 9.1 and -current to fix a security issue. Slackware 9.1 was the first version of Slackware to use the libutempter library, and earlier versions of Slackware are not affected by this issue The utempter package provides a utility and shared library...
mutt security update
Mutt is a text-based program for reading electronic mail. New mutt packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current. These have been upgraded to version 1.4.2i to fix a buffer overflow that could lead to a machine compromise. All sites using mutt should upgrade to the new mutt...
CVE-2000-0848
Buffer overflow in IBM WebSphere web application server WAS allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long Host: request header...
