[slackware-security] libarchive

New libarchive packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libarchive-3.7.8-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues: tar reader: Handle truncation in the...

SUSE CVE-2022-39955

The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set CRS is affected by a partial rule set bypass by submitting a specially crafted HTTP Content-Type header field that indicates multiple character encoding schemes. A vulnerable back-end can potentially be exploited by declaring multiple Content-Type "charset" nam...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-39955

The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set CRS is affected by a partial rule set bypass by submitting a specially crafted HTTP Content-Type header field that indicates multiple character encoding schemes. A vulnerable back-end can potentially be exploited by declaring multiple Content-Type "charset" nam...

Authentication flaw

The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set CRS is affected by a response body bypass to sequentially exfiltrate small and undetectable sections of data by repeatedly submitting an HTTP Range header field with a small byte range. A restricted resource, access to which would ordinarily be detected, may be...

Tor Users Hit With Firefox Exploit, But No Large Compromise of Network Seen

The vulnerability in Firefox that was being used to exploit some users of Tor in recent days was fixed in a previous Firefox release and the exploit in circulation only works against people running Firefox 17. Over the weekend, word spread that the exploit was in the wild and that the Tor network...

Samba: Remote printing non-vulnerability

Background Samba is a freely available SMB/CIFS implementation which allows seamless interoperability of file and print services to other SMB/CIFS clients. Description Due to a bug in the printernotifyinfo function, authorized users could potentially crash their smbd process by sending improperly...

Updated Lynx package for Slackware 7.0 & -current

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emacs & gpm fixes for Slackware 7.0 & -current

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