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:...

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...

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 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : OpenSSL security update (SSA:2003-273-01)

Upgraded OpenSSL packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current. These fix problems with ASN.1 parsing which could lead to a denial of service. It is not known whether the problems could lead to the running of malicious code on the server, but it has not been ruled out. We...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : apache (SSA:2004-133-01)

New apache packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix security issues. These include a possible denial-of-service attack as well as the ability to possible pipe shell escapes through Apache's errorlog which could create an exploit if the error log is read in a termina...

Slackware 10.0 / current : Mozilla (SSA:2004-266-03)

New Mozilla 1.7.3 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 2004-266-03. The text itself is copyright C...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : XFree86 security update (SSA:2004-043-02)

New XFree86 base packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current. These fix overflows which could possibly be exploited to gain unauthorized root access. All sites running XFree86 should upgrade to the new package. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Slackware 10.0 / 9.1 / current : imagemagick (SSA:2004-223-02)

New imagemagick packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, and -current to fix security issues with PNG images. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2004-223-02. The text...