kernel DoS

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix a denial of service security issue. Without a patch to asm-i386/i387.h, a local user can crash the machine. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database:...

cvs

New cvs packages that have been upgraded to cvs-1.11.17 are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix various security issues. Sites running a CVS server should upgrade to the new CVS package right away. More details about the issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and...

CVE-2004-0530

The PHP package in Slackware 8.1, 9.0, and 9.1, when linked against a static library, includes /tmp in the search path, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code as the PHP user by inserting shared libraries into the appropriate path...

CVE-2004-0530

Summary: CVE-2004-0530 affects the PHP package in Slackware 8.1, 9.0, and 9.1. When these packages are linked against a static library, they include /tmp in the library search path, enabling local users to execute arbitrary code as the PHP user by placing shared libraries in the appropriate path....

PHP local security issue

New PHP packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix a security issue. These fix a problem in previous Slackware php packages where linking PHP against a static library in an insecure path under /tmp could allow a local attacker to place shared libraries at this locatio...

mod_ssl

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...

cvs

New cvs packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix a buffer overflow vulnerability which could allow an attacker to run arbitrary programs on the CVS server. Sites running a CVS server should upgrade to the new CVS package right away. More details about this issue may...

kdelibs

New kdelibs packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1 and -current to fix security issues with URI handling. 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-2004-0411 Here are the details fr...

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...

apache

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...

lha update in bin package

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. More details about these issues may be found in the Common...

libpng update

New libpng packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix an issue where libpng could be caused to crash, perhaps creating a denial of service issue if network services are linked with it. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures C...

xine-lib update

New xine-lib packages are available for Slackware 9.1 and -current to fix a security issue where playing a specially crafted Real RTSP stream could run malicious code as the user playing the stream. More details about this issue may be found in this advisory:...

sysklogd update

New sysklogd packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix a security issue where a user could cause syslogd to crash. Thanks to Steve Grubb who researched the issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 9.1 ChangeLog: Sun May 2 17:16:41 PDT 2004...

rsync update

New rsync packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix a security issue. When running an rsync server without the chroot option it is possible for an attacker to write outside of the allowed directory. Any sites running rsync in that mode should upgrade right away and...

kernel security updates

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 9.1 and -current to fix security issues. Also available are new kernel modules packages including alsa-driver, and a new version of the hotplug package for Slackware 9.1 containing some fixes for using 2.4.26 and 2.6.x kernel modules. The most serio...

xine security update

New xine packages are available for Slackware 9.1 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 9.1 ChangeLog: Tue Apr 20 19:01:58 PDT 2004 patches/packages/xine-lib-1rc3c-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to xine-lib-1-rc3c. This release fixes a security problem where opening a...

utempter security update

New utempter packages are available for Slackware 9.1 and -current to fix a security issue. Slackware 9.1 was the first version of Slackware to use the libutempter library, and earlier versions of Slackware are not affected by this issue The utempter package provides a utility and shared library...

tcpdump denial of service

Upgraded tcpdump packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix denial-of-service issues. Sites using tcpdump should upgrade to the new packages. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database:...

OpenSSL security update

Upgraded OpenSSL packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current. These fix two potential denial-of-service issues in earlier versions of OpenSSL. We recommend sites that use OpenSSL upgrade to the fixed packages right away. More details about this issue may be found in the Commo...