[slackware-security] Samba DoS

New Samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security related but in my own and also the Samba's team member who made their WHATSNEW.txt entry, "minor" denial of service issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and...

[slackware-security] arts

New aRts packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a possible security issue with artswrapper. The artswrapper program and the artsd daemon can be used to gain root privileges if artswrapper is setuid root and the system is running a 2.6.x kernel. Note that...

[slackware-security] gnupg DoS

New GnuPG packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues which could allow an attacker to crash gnupg and possibly overwrite memory which could lead to an integer overflow. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabiliti...

SSA-2006-0628032502

New kdebase packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue with KDM the KDE login manager which could be exploited by a local attacker to read any file on the system. The official KDE security advisory may be found here:...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : gnupg DoS (SSA:2006-178-02)

New GnuPG packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues which could allow an attacker to crash gnupg and possibly overwrite memory which could lead to an integer overflow. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / current : kdebase kdm local file reading vulnerability (SSA:2006-178-01)

New kdebase packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue with KDM the KDE login manager which could be exploited by a local attacker to read any file on the system. The official KDE security advisory may be found here:...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / current : arts (SSA:2006-178-03)

New aRts packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a possible security issue with artswrapper. The artswrapper program and the artsd daemon can be used to gain root privileges if artswrapper is setuid root and the system is running a 2.6.x kernel. Note that...

kdebase kdm local file reading vulnerability

New kdebase packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue with KDM the KDE login manager which could be exploited by a local attacker to read any file on the system. The official KDE security advisory may be found here:...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : sendmail (SSA:2006-166-01)

New sendmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a possible denial-of-service issue. Sendmail's complete advisory may be found here: http://www.sendmail.com/security/advisories/SA-200605-01.txt.asc Sendmail has also provided an FAQ about this...

[slackware-security] sendmail

New sendmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a possible denial-of-service issue. Sendmail's complete advisory may be found here: http://www.sendmail.com/security/advisories/SA-200605-01.txt.asc Sendmail has also provided an FAQ about this...

[slackware-security] firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey

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. More details about the issues may be found here:...

[slackware-security] mysql

New mysql packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. The MySQL packages shipped with Slackware 9.1, 10.0, and 10.1 may possibly leak sensitive information found in uninitialized memory to authenticated users. This is fixed in the new packages,...

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 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 9.1 / current : mysql (SSA:2006-155-01)

New mysql packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. The MySQL packages shipped with Slackware 9.1, 10.0, and 10.1 may possibly leak sensitive information found in uninitialized memory to authenticated users. This is fixed in the new packages,...

Slackware 10.2 / current : tetex PDF security (SSA:2006-142-01)

New tetex packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix a possible security issue. teTeX-3.0 incorporates some code from the xpdf program which has been shown to have various overflows that could result in program crashes or possibly the execution of arbitrary code as the teTeX...

Slackware 10.2 / current : zoo archiver overflow (SSA:2006-142-02)

New bin packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix a security issue with the zoo archive program. A non-security- related upgrade to the newest version of 'eject' was also done. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

[slackware-security] zoo archiver overflow

New bin packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix a security issue with the zoo archive program. A non-security- related upgrade to the newest version of "eject" was also done. Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bin-10.2-i486-210.2.tgz:...

Slackware 10.1 / 10.2 / current : xorg server overflow (SSA:2006-123-01)

New xorg and xorg-devel packages are available for Slackware 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. A typo in the X render extension in X.Org 6.8.0 or later allows an X client to crash the server and possibly to execute arbitrary code as the X server user typically this is 'root'...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : Apache httpd redux (SSA:2006-130-01)

New Apache packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a bug with Apache 1.3.35 and glibc that breaks wildcards in Include directives. It may not occur with all versions of glibc, but it has been verified on -current using an Include within a file...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : Apache httpd (SSA:2006-129-01)

New Apache packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 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 2006-129-01. The text...