[slackware-security] libpng for Slackware 10.1 and 10.2

New libpng packages are available for Slackware 10.1 and 10.2 that were left out of the last batch of updates. These fix the same security problems as the other 1.2.23 upgrades. More details about these issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database:...

Linux Kernel 2.42.6 (x86-64) - System Call Emulation Privilege Escalation

Linux Kernel 2.42.6 x86-64 - System Call Emulation Privilege Escalation / exploit for x8664 linux kernel ia32syscall emulation bug, discovered by Wojciech Purczynski by Robert Swiecki Przemyslaw Frasunek Pawel Pisarczyk of ATM-Lab http://www.atm-lab.pl / include include include include include...

CVE-2007-4961

The logintosimulator method in Linden Lab Second Life, as used by the secondlife:// protocol handler and possibly other Second Life login mechanisms, sends an MD5 hash in cleartext in the passwd field, which allows remote attackers to login to an account by sniffing the network and then sending...

Design/Logic Flaw

Argument injection vulnerability in the Linden Lab Second Life secondlife:// protocol handler, as used in Internet Explorer and possibly Firefox, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a '" ' double-quote space sequence followed by the -autologin and -loginuri arguments, whic...

Authentication flaw

The logintosimulator method in Linden Lab Second Life, as used by the secondlife:// protocol handler and possibly other Second Life login mechanisms, sends an MD5 hash in cleartext in the passwd field, which allows remote attackers to login to an account by sniffing the network and then sending...

CVE-2007-4960

Argument injection vulnerability in the Linden Lab Second Life secondlife:// protocol handler, as used in Internet Explorer and possibly Firefox, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a '" ' double-quote space sequence followed by the -autologin and -loginuri arguments, whic...

CVE-2007-4960

The CVE-2007-4960 entry concerns an argument-injection vulnerability in Linden Lab’s Second Life secondlife:// protocol handler, used by Internet Explorer (and possibly Firefox). The issue allows a remote attacker to craft a sequence consisting of a quote space ('" ') followed by -autologin and -...

[slackware-security] php

New PHP5 packages are available for Slackware 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, and 12.0 to fix "several low priority security bugs." Note that PHP5 was not officially supported in Slackware 10.1 or 10.2 being in the /testing directory, and was not the default version of PHP for Slackware 11.0 being in the /extr...

[slackware-security] qt

New qt packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, and 12.0 to fix format string errors. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-3388 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.0 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] thunderbird

New Thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 11.0 and 12.0 to fix two possible security issues. This package may also be used on many older versions of Slackware though we're not certain how far back... More details about the issues may be found here:...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New SeaMonkey packages are available for Slackware 11.0 and 12.0 to fix possible security issues. While this update has been reported to MozillaZine to "fix several security issues", details are not yet available. Presumably the issues are similar to the ones that were recently addressed in Firef...

[slackware-security] firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 11.0 and 12.0 to fix security issues. Note that Firefox 1.5.x has reached its EOL end of life and is no longer being updated by mozilla.com. Users of Firefox 1.5.x are encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 2.x. Since we use the official Firefox...

[slackware-security] file [and bin package]

New file packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix a security issue. NOTE: In Slackware 11.0 and earlier, the file utility was part of the required "bin" package, so this patch is needed even if your machine does not have a "file" package...

[slackware-security] x11

New x11 packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and 11.0. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-6101 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-6102 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-6103 Here are the details...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and 11.0 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.9-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to thunderbird-1.5.0.9. This upgrade fixes several possible security bugs. F...

[slackware-security] proftpd

New proftpd packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 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-2006-5815 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-6170...

SSA-2006-1110030528

The original advisory for this issue contained incorrect URLs for the Slackware 11.0 patches. Sorry about that! The URLs for the 10.2 packages were correct and the Firefox/Thunderbird links given for 11.0 would have been just fine anyway since 10.2 and 11.0 are using the same packages for those...

[fixed URLs] firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey

The original advisory for this issue contained incorrect URLs for the Slackware 11.0 patches. Sorry about that! The URLs for the 10.2 packages were correct and the Firefox/Thunderbird links given for 11.0 would have been just fine anyway since 10.2 and 11.0 are using the same packages for those...

[slackware-security] screen

New screen packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 to fix a security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-4573 Here are the details from the Slackware 11....

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and 11.0 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-2006-5465 Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog:...