[slackware-security] firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey

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. More details about the issues may be found here:...

[slackware-security] xine-lib

New xine-lib packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. More details about these issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2005-4048 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-2802 Evidently there is also an...

[slackware-security] gimp

New gimp packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix a possible security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-3404 Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog:...

[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...

[slackware-security] mutt

New mutt packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a possible security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-3242 Here are the details from the...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / current : Samba 2.0.23 repackaged (SSA:2006-200-01)

New Samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current. In Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2, Samba was evidently picking up the libdm.so.0 library causing a Samba package issued primarily as a security patch to suddenly require a library that would only be present on the...

[slackware-security] Samba 2.0.23 repackaged

New Samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current. In Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2, Samba was evidently picking up the libdm.so.0 library causing a Samba package issued primarily as a security patch to suddenly require a library that would only be present on the...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / current : Samba DoS (SSA:2006-195-01)

New Samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security related but in my own and also the Samba's team member who made their WHATSNEW.txt entry, 'minor' denial of service issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

[slackware-security] Samba DoS

New Samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security related but in my own and also the Samba's team member who made their WHATSNEW.txt entry, "minor" denial of service issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and...

[slackware-security] arts

New aRts packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a possible security issue with artswrapper. The artswrapper program and the artsd daemon can be used to gain root privileges if artswrapper is setuid root and the system is running a 2.6.x kernel. Note that...

[slackware-security] gnupg DoS

New GnuPG packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues which could allow an attacker to crash gnupg and possibly overwrite memory which could lead to an integer overflow. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabiliti...

SSA-2006-0628032502

New kdebase packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue with KDM the KDE login manager which could be exploited by a local attacker to read any file on the system. The official KDE security advisory may be found here:...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : gnupg DoS (SSA:2006-178-02)

New GnuPG packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues which could allow an attacker to crash gnupg and possibly overwrite memory which could lead to an integer overflow. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / current : kdebase kdm local file reading vulnerability (SSA:2006-178-01)

New kdebase packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue with KDM the KDE login manager which could be exploited by a local attacker to read any file on the system. The official KDE security advisory may be found here:...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / current : arts (SSA:2006-178-03)

New aRts packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a possible security issue with artswrapper. The artswrapper program and the artsd daemon can be used to gain root privileges if artswrapper is setuid root and the system is running a 2.6.x kernel. Note that...

kdebase kdm local file reading vulnerability

New kdebase packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue with KDM the KDE login manager which could be exploited by a local attacker to read any file on the system. The official KDE security advisory may be found here:...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : sendmail (SSA:2006-166-01)

New sendmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a possible denial-of-service issue. Sendmail's complete advisory may be found here: http://www.sendmail.com/security/advisories/SA-200605-01.txt.asc Sendmail has also provided an FAQ about this...

[slackware-security] sendmail

New sendmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a possible denial-of-service issue. Sendmail's complete advisory may be found here: http://www.sendmail.com/security/advisories/SA-200605-01.txt.asc Sendmail has also provided an FAQ about this...

[slackware-security] firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey

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. More details about the issues may be found here:...

[slackware-security] mysql

New mysql packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. The MySQL packages shipped with Slackware 9.1, 10.0, and 10.1 may possibly leak sensitive information found in uninitialized memory to authenticated users. This is fixed in the new packages,...