Slackware Linux 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current polkit Vulnerability (SSA:2022-025-02)

The version of polkit installed on the remote host is prior to 0.105 / 0.113 / 0.120. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SSA:2022-025-02 advisory. - A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid...

Slackware Linux 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current wpa_supplicant Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2022-019-01)

The version of wpasupplicant installed on the remote host is prior to 2.10 / 2.9. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SSA:2022-019-01 advisory. - The implementations of EAP-PWD in hostapd and wpasupplicant are vulnerable to side-channel attacks as a result ...

Slackware Linux 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current expat Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2022-016-01)

The version of expat installed on the remote host is prior to 2.4.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SSA:2022-016-01 advisory. - In Expat aka libexpat before 2.4.3, a left shift by 29 or more places in the storeAtts function in xmlparse.c can lead to...

Slackware Linux 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current wpa_supplicant Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2021-362-01)

The version of wpasupplicant installed on the remote host is prior to 2.9. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SSA:2021-362-01 advisory. - hostapd before 2.10 and wpasupplicant before 2.10 allow an incorrect indication of disconnection in certain situations...

Slackware Linux 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current httpd Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2021-354-01)

The version of httpd installed on the remote host is prior to 2.4.52. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SSA:2021-354-01 advisory. - A crafted URI sent to httpd configured as a forward proxy ProxyRequests on can cause a crash NULL pointer dereference or, f...

Slackware Linux 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current xorg-server Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2021-350-01)

The version of xorg-server installed on the remote host is prior to 1.12.4 / 1.14.3 / 1.18.3 / 1.20.14 / 21.1.4. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SSA:2021-350-01 advisory. - A flaw was found in xorg-x11-server in versions before 21.1.2 and before 1.20.14...

Slackware Linux 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current mozilla-nss Vulnerability (SSA:2021-337-01)

The version of mozilla-nss installed on the remote host is prior to 3.23 / 3.40.1 / 3.73. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SSA:2021-337-01 advisory. - NSS Network Security Services versions prior to 3.73 or 3.68.1 ESR are vulnerable to a heap overflow when handli...

Slackware Linux 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current alpine Vulnerability (SSA:2021-264-01)

The version of alpine installed on the remote host is prior to 2.25. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SSA:2021-264-01 advisory. - In Alpine through 2.24, untagged responses from an IMAP server are accepted before STARTTLS. CVE-2021-38370 Note that Nessus has not...

Slackware Linux 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current httpd Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2021-259-01)

The version of httpd installed on the remote host is prior to 2.4.49. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SSA:2021-259-01 advisory. - A crafted method sent through HTTP/2 will bypass validation and be forwarded by modproxy, which can lead to request splitti...

Slackware Linux 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current curl Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2021-258-01)

The version of curl installed on the remote host is prior to 7.79.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SSA:2021-258-01 advisory. - When curl = 7.20.0 and = 7.20.0 and = 7.78.0 to require a successful upgrade to TLS when speaking to an IMAP, POP3 or FTP...

Slackware Linux 14.2 / current ntfs-3g Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2021-243-01)

The version of ntfs-3g installed on the remote host is prior to 2021.8.22. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SSA:2021-243-01 advisory. - A crafted NTFS image can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by an unsanitized attribute in...

Slackware 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current : irssi (SSA:2018-046-01)

New irssi packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2018-046-01. The text itself is copyright C Slackware Linux...

CVE-2007-0823

xterm on Slackware Linux 10.2 stores information that had been displayed for a different user account using the same xterm process, which might allow local users to bypass file permissions and read other users' files, or obtain other sensitive information, by reading the xterm process memory. NOT...

CVE-2007-0822

umount, when running with the Linux 2.6.15 kernel on Slackware Linux 10.2, allows local users to trigger a NULL dereference and application crash by invoking the program with a pathname for a USB pen drive that was mounted and then physically removed, which might allow the users to obtain sensiti...

F5 FirePass Detection (HTTP)

HTTP based detection of F5 FirePass. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 SCHUTZWERK GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later ifdescription...

BSD mailx 8.1.1 -10 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1305/info Some Linux distributions ship with BSD mailx 8.1.1-10 On Slackware 7.x it can be found as /usr/bin/Mail. A vulnerability exists in the 'mail' program, part of the Berkeley mailx package. The 'mail' program...

RedHat Linux 5.0/5.1/5.2,Slackware Linux <= 3.5 klogd Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/398/info It is possible to cause a denial of service remote and local through generating old, obscure kernel messages not terminated with \n in klogd. The problem exists because of a buffer overflow in the klogd handling ...

RedHat Linux <= 6.0, Slackware Linux <= 4.0 Termcap tgetent() Buffer Overflow (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/588/info A buffer overflow existed in libtermcap's tgetent function, which could cause the user to execute arbitrary code if they were able to supply their own termcap file. Versions of libtermcap 2.0.8 and earliear are...

Citadel/UX <= 6.27 Remote Root Format String Exploit

No description provided by source. / citadelfsexp.c Citadel/UX v6.27 remote format string exploit Use: ./citadelfsexp -h host options options: -h arg host or IP -t arg type of target system -l targets list -g arg syslog GOT address -r arg RET address coki@nosystem:/audit$ ./citadelfsexp -h...

Slackware Linux 3.4 makebootdisk temporary file Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78/info makebootdisk creates the file /tmp/return insecurely and follows symbolic links. An attacker can create a symbolic link from /tmp/return to any file and wait for root to run the program. This will clober the targe...