[slackware-security] metamail security update (SSA:2004-049-02)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 slackware-security metamail security update SSA:2004-049-02 Metamail is a set of utilities for processing MIME mail. New metamail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current. These fix two format string bugs and two buffer overflo...

[slackware-security] lftp security update

lftp is a file transfer program that connects to other hosts using FTP, HTTP, and other protocols. A security problem with lftp has been corrected with the release of lftp-2.6.10. New packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current. Any sites using lftp should upgrade to the new...

fetchmail security update

Fetchmail is a mail-retrieval and forwarding utility. Upgraded fetchmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current. These fix a vulnerability where a specially crafted email could crash fetchmail, preventing the user from downloading or forwarding their email. More details...

OpenSSL security update

Upgraded OpenSSL packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current. These fix problems with ASN.1 parsing which could lead to a denial of service. It is not known whether the problems could lead to the running of malicious code on the server, but it has not been ruled out. We...

ProFTPD Security Advisory

Upgraded ProFTPD packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0 and - -current. These fix a security issue where an attacker could gain a root shell by downloading a specially crafted file. Here are the details from the Slackware 9.0 ChangeLog: Tue Sep 23 14:43:10 PDT 2003...

OpenSSH updated again

Upgraded OpenSSH 3.7.1p1 packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0 and -current. These fix additional buffer management errors that were not corrected in the recent 3.7p1 release. The possibility exists that these errors could allow a remote exploit, so we recommend all sites running OpenSSH...

OpenSSH Security Advisory

Upgraded OpenSSH packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0 and - -current. These fix a buffer management error found in versions of OpenSSH earlier than 3.7. The possibility exists that this error could allow a remote exploit, so we recommend all sites running OpenSSH upgrade to the new OpenS...

EPIC4 security fixes

New EPIC4 packages are available to fix security problems found by Timo Sirainen. EPIC4 is an IRC Internet Relay Chat client. Under certain circumstances, a malicious IRC server could cause EPIC4 to crash, or possibly to run arbitrary code as the user running EPIC4. All sites running EPIC4 are...

Sendmail buffer overflow fixed

The sendmail packages in Slackware 8.1 and -current have been patched to fix a security problem. All sites running sendmail should upgrade. More information on the problem can be found here: http://www.sendmail.org/8.12.8.html Here are the details from the Slackware 8.1 ChangeLog: Mon Mar 3...

rsync update fixes security problems

New rsync packages are available to fix security problems. Here's the information from the Slackware 8.0 ChangeLog: ---------------------------- Mon Mar 11 15:09:26 PST 2002 patches/packages/rsync.tgz: Upgraded to rsync-2.5.3. This fixes two security problems: Make sure that supplementary groups...

: glibc 2.1.3 vulnerabilities patched

Three locale-related vulnerabilities with glibc 2.1.3 were recently reported on BugTraq. These vulnerabilities could allow local users to gain root access. Users of Slackware 7.0, 7.1, and -current are strongly urged to upgrade to the new glibc packages in the -current branch...