Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : gaim (SSA:2005-242-03)

New gaim packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix some security issues. including: AIM/ICQ away message buffer overflow AIM/ICQ non-UTF-8 filename crash Gadu-Gadu memory alignment bug Sites that use GAIM should upgrade to the new version. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 ...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / current : kcheckpass in kdebase (SSA:2005-251-01)

New kdebase packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issue with the kcheckpass program. Earlier versions of Slackware are not affected. A flaw in the way the program creates lockfiles could allow a local attacker to gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 ...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : PHP (SSA:2005-242-02)

New PHP packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues. PHP has been relinked with the shared PCRE library to fix an overflow issue with PHP's builtin PRCE code, and PEAR::XMLRPC has been upgraded to version 1.4.0 which eliminates the eval...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / current : dnsmasq (SSA:2005-201-01)

New dnsmasq packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues. An off-by-one overflow vulnerability may allow a DHCP client to create a denial of service condition. Additional code was also added to detect and defeat attempts to poison the DNS cache. %NASLMINLEV...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : dhcpcd DoS (SSA:2005-255-01)

New dhcpcd packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a minor security issue. The dhcpcd daemon can be tricked into reading past the end of the DHCP buffer by a malicious DHCP server, which causes the dhcpcd daemon to crash and results in a denial of...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : fetchmail (SSA:2005-203-05)

New fetchmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues. Connecting to a malicious or compromised POP3 server may overflow fetchmail's stack causing a crash or the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security...

X.Org pixmap overflow

New X.Org server packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. An integer overflow in the pixmap handling code may allow the execution of arbitrary code through a specially crafted pixmap. Slackware 10.2 was patched against this vulnerability before...

Mozilla/Firefox

New Mozilla and Firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues: MFSA 2005-59 Command-line handling on Linux allows shell execution MFSA 2005-58 Firefox 1.0.7 / Mozilla Suite 1.7.12 Vulnerability Fixes MFSA 2005-57 IDN heap overrun using...

dhcpcd DoS

New dhcpcd packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a minor security issue. The dhcpcd daemon can be tricked into reading past the end of the DHCP buffer by a malicious DHCP server, which causes the dhcpcd daemon to crash and results in a denial of...

php5 in Slackware 10.1

A new php5 package is available for Slackware 10.1 in /testing to fix security issues. PHP has been relinked with the shared PCRE library to fix an overflow issue with PHP's builtin PRCE code, and PEAR::XMLRPC has been upgraded to version 1.4.0 which eliminates the eval function. The eval functio...

slackware-current security updates

This advisory summarizes recent security fixes in Slackware -current. Usually security advisories are not issued on problems that exist only within the test version of Slackware slackware-current, but since it's so close to being released as Slackware 10.2, and since there have been several...

mod_ssl

New modssl packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issue. If "SSLVerifyClient optional" was configured in the global section of the config file, it could improperly override "SSLVerifyClient require" in a per-location section. More details...

kcheckpass in kdebase

New kdebase packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issue with the kcheckpass program. Earlier versions of Slackware are not affected. A flaw in the way the program creates lockfiles could allow a local attacker to gain root privileges. For more details abo...

gaim

New gaim packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix some security issues. including: AIM/ICQ away message buffer overflow AIM/ICQ non-UTF-8 filename crash Gadu-Gadu memory alignment bug Sites that use GAIM should upgrade to the new version. More details about...

PHP

New PHP packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues. PHP has been relinked with the shared PCRE library to fix an overflow issue with PHP's builtin PRCE code, and PEAR::XMLRPC has been upgraded to version 1.4.0 which eliminates the eval...

PCRE library

New PCRE packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issue. A buffer overflow could be triggered by a specially crafted regular expression. Any applications that use PCRE to process untrusted regular expressions may be exploited to run arbitrary...

nbSMTP 0.99 - util.c Client-Side Command Execution

nbSMTP 0.99 - util.c Client-Side Command Execution / nbSMTPfsexp.c nbSMTP v0.99 remote format string exploit by CoKi root@nosystem:/home/coki/audi ./nbSMTPfsexp nbSMTP v0.99 remote format string exploit by CoKi Use: ./nbSMTPfsexp options options: -t type of target system -r return address -s...

nbSMTP <= 0.99 (util.c) Client-Side Command Execution Exploit

No description provided by source. / nbSMTPfsexp.c nbSMTP v0.99 remote format string exploit by CoKi [email protected] root@nosystem:/home/coki/audi ./nbSMTPfsexp nbSMTP v0.99 remote format string exploit by CoKi [email protected] Use: ./nbSMTPfsexp options options: -t arg type of target...

telnet client

New tcpip packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issues with the telnet client. Overflows in the telnet client may lead to the execution of arbitrary code as the telnet user if the user connects to a malicious telnet server. More details abo...

fetchmail

New fetchmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues. Connecting to a malicious or compromised POP3 server may overflow fetchmail's stack causing a crash or the execution of arbitrary code. For more information about this issue, see:...