gxine format string vulnerability

New gxine packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a format string security issue. 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-2005-1692 Here are the details from...

zlib

New zlib packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix an additional crash issue. zlib 1.1.x is not affected. Here are the details from the Slackware 10.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/zlib-1.2.3-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to zlib-1.2.3. This fixes an additional crash not fixed by...

kdenetwork

New kdenetwork packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues. Overflows in libgadu used by kopete that can cause a denial of service or arbitrary code execution. More details about this vulnerability may be found here:...

Mozilla/Firefox

New Mozilla packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix various security issues and bugs. See the Mozilla site for a complete list of the issues patched: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlMozilla New versions of the mozilla-plugins symlink...

dnsmasq

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. More detail...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : tcpdump DoS (SSA:2005-195-10)

New tcpdump packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issue. A specially crafted BGP packet can cause tcpdump to go into an infinite loop, creating a denial of service where network monitoring is disabled. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : XV (SSA:2005-195-02)

New XV image viewer packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues. Format string and other issues could cause a crash or execution of arbitrary code if a specially crafted image is loaded with XV. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security...

XV

New XV image viewer packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues. Format string and other issues could cause a crash or execution of arbitrary code if a specially crafted image is loaded with XV. Here are the details from the Slackware 10.1...

SSA-18704 New Samba package available

New Samba packages are available for Slackware 8.1 and -current to fix a security problem and provide other bugfixes and improvements. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated and is no longer used after a revamping of the Slackware generator. Disabled on 2011/05/27. This...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : gaim (SSA:2005-133-01)

New gaim packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix several security issues. Sites that use GAIM should upgrade to the new version. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : mod_ssl (SSA:2004-154-01)

New modssl packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix a security issue. The packages were upgraded to modssl-2.8.18-1.3.31 fixing a buffer overflow that may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a client certificate with a long subject DN, if modssl is...

Slackware 10.0 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : libpng (SSA:2004-222-01)

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...

SSA-18695 mutt remote exploit patched

An exploitable overflow has been found in the address handling code of the mutt mail client version 1.2.5i supplied with Slackware 8.0. A new mutt-1.2.5.1 has been released which addresses this problem, and packages are now available for Slackware 8.0 and -current. We urge all Slackware users to...

SSA-18707 New DHCP packages available

New DHCP packages are available for Slackware 8.1 and -current to fix buffer overflow security problems. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated and is no longer used after a revamping of the Slackware generator. Disabled on 2011/05/27. This script was automatically...

SSA-18708 New CVS packages available

New cvs packages are available to fix a security vulnerability. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated and is no longer used after a revamping of the Slackware generator. Disabled on 2011/05/27. This script was automatically generated from a Slackware Security Advisory ...

SSA-18706 Security updates for Slackware 8.1

Several security updates are now available for Slackware 8.1, including updated packages for Apache, glibc, modssl, openssh, openssl, and php. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated and is no longer used after a revamping of the Slackware generator. Disabled on...

Slackware 10.0 / current : xine-lib (SSA:2004-266-04)

New xine-lib packages are available for Slackware 10.0 and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2004-266-04. The text itself is copyright C...

Slackware 9.0 / current : WU-FTPD Security Advisory (SSA:2003-259-03)

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...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : lha update in bin package (SSA:2004-125-01)

New bin- packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix buffer overflows and directory traversal vulnerabilities in the 'lha' archive utility. Sites using 'lha' should upgrade to the new bin package right away. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Slackware 9.0 / 9.1 / current : kdepim security update (SSA:2004-014-01)

New kdepim packages are available for Slackware 9.0 and 9.1 to fix a security issue with .VCF file handling. For Slackware -current, a complete upgrade to kde-3.1.5 is available. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...