[slackware-security] x11

New x11 packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. In addition, fontconfig and freetype have been split out from the x11 packages in -current, so if you run -current you'll also need to install those new packages. More details about the issues may be found here...

pinball privilege escalation

Shared library is loaded from current directory...

Slackware 10.2 / current : firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey (SSA:2006-155-02)

New Firefox and Thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. In addition, a new SeaMonkey package is available for Slackware -current to fix similar issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks i...

[slackware-security] mysql

New mysql packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. The MySQL package shipped with Slackware 10.2 may possibly leak sensitive information found in uninitialized memory to authenticated users. The MySQL package previously in Slackware -current also suffered fro...

[slackware-security] firefox

New Firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix a security issue. More details about the issues may be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlfirefox1.5.0.3 Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] thunderbird

New Thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlthunderbird Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] mozilla security/EOL

New Mozilla packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2 and -current to fix multiple security issues. More details about the issues may be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlmozilla Also note that this release marks the EOL End Of Life for the...

CVE-2006-1797

The CVE-2006-1797 entry describes a local denial-of-service in NetBSD-current kernels released before 28 September 2005. A local attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference by issuing the SIOCGIFALIAS ioctl to query information about a non-existent network alias, causing a system crash. The a...

CVE-2006-1775

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in phpBB 2.0.19 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 Site Description field in a adminboard.php, the 2 Group name and 3 Group description fields in b admingroups.php and c groupcp.php, the 4 Theme Name field in d...

CVE-2006-1775

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in phpBB 2.0.19 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 Site Description field in a adminboard.php, the 2 Group name and 3 Group description fields in b admingroups.php and c groupcp.php, the 4 Theme Name field in d...

Stack overflow

Stack-based buffer overflow in Python 2.4.2 and earlier, running on Linux 2.6.12.5 under gcc 4.0.3 with libc 2.3.5, allows local users to cause a "stack overflow," and possibly gain privileges, by running a script from a current working directory that has a long name, related to the realpath...

[slackware-security] imagemagick

New imagemagick packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2005-4601 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-0082 Here are the details from...

NView / XNView multimedia viewer / browser privilege escalation

Dynamic libraries from current directory are loaded on startup...

CVE-2005-3533

Buffer overflow in OSH before 1.7-15 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long current working directory and filename...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : elm mailer (SSA:2005-311-01)

New Elm packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. A buffer overflow in the parsing of the Expires header could allow arbitrary code to be executed as the user running Elm. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

imapd

New imapd packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix an alleged security issue. See the details below for more information. Also, new Pine packages are provided since these are built together... why not? Might as well upgrade that too, while I'm fixi...

lynx

New Lynx packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. An overflow could result in the execution of arbitrary code when using Lynx to connect to a malicious NNTP server. More details about this issue may be found in the Common...

security flaw

gdb before 6.3 searches the current working directory to load the .gdbinit configuration file, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands as the user running gdb...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : gaim (SSA:2005-242-03)

New gaim packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix some security issues. including: AIM/ICQ away message buffer overflow AIM/ICQ non-UTF-8 filename crash Gadu-Gadu memory alignment bug Sites that use GAIM should upgrade to the new version. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 ...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : proftpd (MDKSA-2005:140)

Two format string vulnerabilities were discovered in ProFTPD. The first exists when displaying a shutdown message containin the name of the current directory. This could be exploited by a user who creates a directory containing format specifiers and sets the directory as the current directory whe...