CVE-2005-0087

The CVE affects Red Hat Linux 4: the alsa-lib package disables stack-protection in libasound.so, allowing potential arbitrary-code execution when combined with other vulnerabilities. This is documented as CAN-2005-0087 and RHSA-2005:033. A patched alsa-lib update addressing stack-execution protec...

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...