Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / current : security issues in pine (SSA:2003-253-01)

Upgraded pine packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0 and - -current. These fix two security problems found by iDEFENSE Labs which could lead to arbitrary code execution when a specially crafted email is processed by Pine. This problem is fixed in Pine 4.58. Sites which use the Pine mail...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 : Mutt buffer overflow in IMAP support

The mutt mail client packages in Slackware 8.1 and 9.0 have been upgraded to mutt-1.4.1i to fix a security problem discovered by Core Security Technologies. This issue may allow a remote attacker controlling a malicious IMAP server to execute code on your machine as the user running mutt if you...

Slackware current : slackware-current security updates (SSA:2005-251-03)

This advisory summarizes recent security fixes in Slackware -current. Usually security advisories are not issued on problems that exist only within the test version of Slackware slackware-current, but since it's so close to being released as Slackware 10.2, and since there have been several...

Slackware 13.0 / 13.1 / 13.37 / current : mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2011-122-02)

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2011-122-02. The text...

Slackware 13.0 / current : mozilla-firefox (SSA:2010-090-02)

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.0 and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2010-090-02. The text itself is copyright ...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 11.0 / 12.0 / 12.1 / 12.2 / 13.0 / 13.1 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : bind (SSA:2010-176-01)

New bind packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix security issues when DNSSEC is enabled which is not the default setting. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Slackware current : kernel (SSA:2009-342-01)

New Linux kernel packages are available for Slackware 13.0 and -current to address a security issue. A kernel bug discovered by David Ford may allow remote attackers to crash the kernel by sending an oversized IP packet. While the impact on ordinary servers is still unclear the problem was notice...

Slackware 13.0 / 13.1 / current : mozilla-firefox (SSA:2010-301-02)

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2010-301-02. The text itself is...

Slackware 8.1 : Security updates for Slackware 8.1

Several security updates are now available for Slackware 8.1, including updated packages for Apache, glibc, modssl, openssh, openssl, and php. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from the associated Slackware Security Advisory. Th...

Slackware 13.1 / current : mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2010-295-03)

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 13.1 and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2010-295-03. The text itself is...

Slackware 13.0 / current : kdebase-workspace (SSA:2010-110-02)

New kdebase-workspace packages are available for Slackware 13.0 and -current to fix a security issue with KDM. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2010-110-02. The text itself i...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 11.0 / 12.0 / 12.1 / 12.2 / 13.0 / current : samba (SSA:2009-276-01)

New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : imapd (SSA:2005-310-06)

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...

Slackware 13.0 / 13.1 / current : mozilla-firefox (SSA:2010-343-01)

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2010-343-01. The text itself is...

Slackware 8.1 / current : New CVS packages available

New cvs packages are available to fix a security vulnerability. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from the associated Slackware Security Advisory. The text itself is copyright C Slackware Linux, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if...

Slackware current : sudo upgrade fixes a potential vulnerability

New sudo packages are available to fix a security problem which may allow users to become root, or to execute arbitrary code as root. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from the associated Slackware Security Advisory. The text...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 11.0 / 12.0 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 : bind (SSA:2007-207-01)

New bind packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, and 12.0 to fix security issues. The first issue which allows remote attackers to make recursive queries only affects Slackware 12.0. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and...

Slackware 13.0 / 13.1 / current : mozilla-firefox (SSA:2010-295-02)

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2010-295-02. The text itself is...

Slackware 13.1 / current : cups (SSA:2010-176-05)

New cups packages are available for Slackware 13.1 and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2010-176-05. The text itself is copyright C Slackware...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 11.0 / 12.0 / 12.1 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : bind (SSA:2008-191-02)

New bind packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to address a security problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory...