Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / current : nfs-utils off-by-one overflow fixed (SSA:2003-195-01)

New nfs-utils packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, and -current to fix an off-by-one buffer overflow in xlog.c. Thanks to Janusz Niewiadomski for discovering and reporting this problem. The CVE Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project has assigned the identification number...

PHP packages updated again for 8.1, 9.0, 9.1

Sorry folks, I mistakenly used a build template that was too new to build the first round of PHP packages for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, and 9.1, which tried to place the module in /usr/libexec/apache older versions of Slackware use /usr/libexec instead, and tried to link to incorrect libraries and...

Berlios GPSD 1.91-1 < 2.7-2 - Format String

require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 'Berlios GPSD Format String Vulnerability', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a format string vulnerability in the Berlios GPSD server. This vulnerability was discovered by Kevin Finisterre. , 'Author' = 'Yann Senotier ' , 'License' = MSFLICENSE, 'Versio...

glFTPd (Slackware 9.0/9.1/10.0) - Local Stack Overflow

/ glFTPd local stack buffer overflow exploit Proof of Concept Tested in Slackware 9.0 / 9.1 / 10.0 by CoKi No System Group - http://www.nosystem.com.ar / include include include define BUFFER 288 + 1 define PATH "/glftpd/bin/dupescan" char shellcode= "xb0x31xcdx80x89xc3x31xc0xb0x17xcdx80"...

[slackware-security] sox

New sox packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, and -current to fix buffer overflow security issues that could allow a malicious WAV file to execute arbitrary code. Here are the details from the Slackware 10.0 ChangeLog: Sat Aug 7 17:17:20 AKDT 2004...

Slackware 9.0, libpng correction

In the previous advisory for libpng SSA:2004-222-01, the URL provided for the Slackware 9.0 patch mistakenly pointed to the old unpatched package. Slackware 9.0 users should follow the URL below for the new package:...

mc

New mc packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix security issues that These could lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code as the user running mc. Sites that use mc should upgrade to the new mc package. More details about this issue may be found in t...

GAIM security update

GAIM is a GTK2-based Instant Messaging IM client. New GAIM packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, and -current. 12 vulnerabilities were found in the instant messenger GAIM that allow remote compromise. All sites using GAIM should upgrade to these new packages. These are based on GAIM 0.75...

INN security update

INN InterNetNews is used to run a news NNTP server. New INN packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, and -current. These have been upgraded to inn-2.4.1 to fix a potentially exploitable buffer overflow. All sites running INN should upgrade. Here are the details from the Slackware 9.1...

WU-FTPD Security Advisory

Upgraded WU-FTPD packages are available for Slackware 9.0 and - -current. These fix a problem where an attacker could use a specially crafted filename in conjunction with WU-FTPD's conversion feature mostly used to compress files, or produce tar archives to execute arbitrary commands on the serve...

New OpenSSH packages

Upgraded OpenSSH 3.7.1p2 packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0 and -current. This fixes security problems with PAM authentication. It also includes several code cleanups from Solar Designer. Slackware is not vulnerable to the PAM problem, and it is not believed that any of the other code...

unzip vulnerability patched

Upgraded infozip packages are available for Slackware 9.0 and -current. These fix a security issue where a specially crafted archive may overwrite files including system files anywhere on the filesystem upon extraction by a user with sufficient permissions. For more information, see:...

GDM security update

Upgraded gdm packages are available for Slackware 9.0 and -current. These fix a security issue where a local user may use GDM to read any file on the system. Here are the details from the Slackware 9.0 ChangeLog: Sun Aug 24 14:36:29 PDT 2003 patches/packages/gdm-2.4.1.6-i386-1.tgz: Upgraded to...

KDE packages updated

New KDE packages are available for Slackware 9.0. These address a security issue where Konqueror may leak authentication credentials. Here are the details from the Slackware 9.0 ChangeLog: Fri Aug 1 15:15:51 PDT 2003 patches/packages/kde/: Upgraded to KDE 3.1.3. Note that this update addresses a...

nfs-utils packages replaced

New nfs-utils packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, and -current to replace the ones that were issued yesterday. A bug in has been fixed in utils/mountd/auth.c that could cause mountd to crash. Here are the details from the Slackware 9.0 ChangeLog: Tue Jul 15 10:42:58 PDT 2003...

2.4.21 kernels available

Precompiled Linux 2.4.21 kernels and source packages are now available for Slackware 9.0 and -current. These provide an improved version of the ptrace fix that had been applied to 2.4.20 in Slackware 9.0 for example, command line options now appear correctly when root does 'ps ax', and fix a...

CVE-2003-0335

Slackware 9.0’s rc.M invokes quotacheck with the -M option, causing the filesystem to be remounted and potentially resetting security-related mount flags such as nosuid, nodev, and noexec. Root cause: rc.M behavior triggers a remount via quotacheck. Impact stated: possible changes to mount flags ...

CVE-2003-0335

rc.M in Slackware 9.0 calls quotacheck with the -M option, which causes the filesystem to be remounted and possibly reset security-relevant mount flags such as nosuid, nodev, and noexec...

quotacheck security fix in rc.M

An upgraded sysvinit package is available which fixes a problem with the use of quotacheck in /etc/rc.d/rc.M. The original version of rc.M calls quotacheck like this: echo "Checking filesystem quotas: /sbin/quotacheck -avugM" /sbin/quotacheck -avugM The 'M' option is wrong. This causes the...

mod_ssl RSA blinding fixes

An upgrade for modssl to version 2.8.141.3.27 is now available. This version provides RSA blinding by default which prevents an extended timing analysis from revealing details of the secret key to an attacker. Note that this problem was already fixed within OpenSSL, so this is a "double fix". Wit...