[slackware-security] openvpn

New openvpn packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openvpn-2.3.17-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes several denial of service issues...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bind-9.10.5P1-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed denial of service security issue: Some RPZ...

[slackware-security] sudo

New sudo packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/sudo-1.8.20p1-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a potential overwrite of arbitrary syste...

CVE-2016-9843

The crc32big function in crc32.c in zlib 1.2.8 might allow context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving big-endian CRC calculation...

CVE-2016-9841

inffast.c in zlib 1.2.8 might allow context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging improper pointer arithmetic...

[slackware-security] kdelibs

New kdelibs packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/kdelibs-4.14.32-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue with KAuth that can lead to...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bind-9.10.4P8-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed denial of service security issues. For more...

[slackware-security] libtiff

New libtiff packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libtiff-4.0.7-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] mcabber

New mcabber packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mcabber-1.0.5-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: An incorrect implementation of XEP-028...

Lsyncd: Remote execution of arbitrary code

Background A daemon to synchronize local directories using rsync. Description default-rsyncssh.lua in Lsyncd performed insufficient sanitising of filenames. Impact An attacker, able to control files processed by Lsyncd, could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bind-9.10.4P5-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a denial-of-service vulnerability. An...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-45.6.0esr-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mo...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-45.5.1-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. F...

[slackware-security] mariadb

New mariadb packages are available for Slackware 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mariadb-10.0.28-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes several security issues. For more information, see:...

FortiWLC Undocumented Hardcoded Rsync Account

FortiWLC runs a rsyncd server, historically used for High-Availability purpose. This server comes with a hardcoded account, which has read/write privileges over various parts of the system...

[slackware-security] curl

New curl packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/curl-7.50.3-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed heap overflows in four libcurl functions: curlescape,...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : rsync (SUSE-SU-2016:2151-1)

rsync was updated to fix one security issue. - CVE-2014-9512: rsync allowed remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in the synchronization path bsc915410. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-45.3.0-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. F...

[slackware-security] kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.1 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-3.10.103/: Upgraded. A flaw was found in the implementation of the Linux kernels handling of networking challenge ack where an attacker is...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : rsync (SUSE-SU-2016:1866-1)

rsync was updated to fix one security issue. - CVE-2014-9512: rsync allowed remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in the synchronization path bsc915410. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE...