Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : OpenSSL security update (SSA:2003-273-01)

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...

Slackware 10.0 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : new samba packages (SSA:2004-207-01)

New samba packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0 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 2004-207-01. The text itself is...

Slackware 9.0 : quotacheck security fix in rc.M (SSA:2003-141-06)

An upgraded sysvinit package is available which fixes a problem with the use of quotacheck in /etc/rc.d/rc.M. The original version of rc.M calls quotacheck like this: echo 'Checking filesystem quotas: /sbin/quotacheck -avugM' /sbin/quotacheck -avugM The 'M' option is wrong. This causes the...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : kernel DoS (SSA:2004-167-01)

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix a denial of service security issue. Without a patch to asm-i386/i387.h, a local user can crash the machine. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugi...

Slackware 9.0 / 9.1 / current : Kernel security update (SSA:2004-006-01)

New kernels are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1 and -current. The 9.1 and -current kernels have been upgraded to 2.4.24, and a fix has been backported to the 2.4.21 kernels in Slackware 9.0 to fix a bounds-checking problem in the kernel's mremap call which could be used by a local attacker to ga...

Slackware 10.0 / 9.1 / current : imagemagick (SSA:2004-223-02)

New imagemagick packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, and -current to fix security issues with PNG images. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2004-223-02. The text...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : apache (SSA:2004-133-01)

New apache packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix security issues. These include a possible denial-of-service attack as well as the ability to possible pipe shell escapes through Apache's errorlog which could create an exploit if the error log is read in a termina...

Slackware 10.0 / current : alternate samba package for Slackware 10.0 (SSA:2004-208-01)

It was pointed out that the new Samba packages for Slackware 10.0 and -current have a dependency on libattr.so that wasn't in the previous packages. Since it's not the intent to introduce new requirements in security patches especially for stable versions, an alternate version of the samba packag...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : rsync update (SSA:2004-124-01)

New rsync packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix a security issue. When running an rsync server without the chroot option it is possible for an attacker to write outside of the allowed directory. Any sites running rsync in that mode should upgrade right away and...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : java (jre, j2sdk) (SSA:2005-170-01)

Sun has released a couple of security advisories pertaining to both the Java Runtime Environment and the Standard Edition Development Kit. These could allow applets to read or write to local files. For more details, Sun's advisories may be found here:...

Slackware 10.0 / 9.1 / current : Mozilla (SSA:2004-223-01)

New Mozilla packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, and -current to fix a number of security issues. Slackware 10.0 and -current were upgraded to Mozilla 1.7.2, and Slackware 9.1 was upgraded to Mozilla 1.4.3. As usual, new versions of Mozilla require new versions of things that link with...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : gaim (SSA:2005-162-01)

New gaim packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix some minor security issues. Sites that use GAIM should upgrade to the new version. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted fro...

SSA-18706 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. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated and is no longer used after a revamping of the Slackware generator. Disabled on...

SSA-18704 New Samba package available

New Samba packages are available for Slackware 8.1 and -current to fix a security problem and provide other bugfixes and improvements. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated and is no longer used after a revamping of the Slackware generator. Disabled on 2011/05/27. This...

SSA-18708 New CVS packages available

New cvs packages are available to fix a security vulnerability. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated and is no longer used after a revamping of the Slackware generator. Disabled on 2011/05/27. This script was automatically generated from a Slackware Security Advisory ...

Slackware 9.0 / current : WU-FTPD Security Advisory (SSA:2003-259-03)

Upgraded WU-FTPD packages are available for Slackware 9.0 and - -current. These fix a problem where an attacker could use a specially crafted filename in conjunction with WU-FTPD's conversion feature mostly used to compress files, or produce tar archives to execute arbitrary commands on the serve...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : lftp security update (SSA:2003-346-01)

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...

Slackware 9.0 / 9.1 / current : kdepim security update (SSA:2004-014-01)

New kdepim packages are available for Slackware 9.0 and 9.1 to fix a security issue with .VCF file handling. For Slackware -current, a complete upgrade to kde-3.1.5 is available. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Slackware 9.0 / 9.1 / current : GAIM security update (SSA:2004-026-01)

GAIM is a GTK2-based Instant Messaging IM client. New GAIM packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, and -current. 12 vulnerabilities were found in the instant messenger GAIM that allow remote compromise. All sites using GAIM should upgrade to these new packages. These are based on GAIM 0.75...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 : BitchX security fixes (SSA:2003-141-02)

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