Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : bind DoS (SSA:2006-257-01)

New bind packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a Denial of Service issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2006-257-01. The tex...

Slackware 9.0 : Updated KDE packages available

New KDE 3.1.1a packages are available for Slackware 9.0 which fix a security problem with the handling of PS and PDF documents. 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 i...

Slackware 8.1 / current : Samba buffer overflow fixed

The samba packages in Slackware 8.1 and -current have been patched to fix a security problem. All sites running samba should upgrade. 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 8.1 / current : 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. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from the associated Slackware Security Advisory. The...

Slackware 13.0 / 13.1 / 13.37 / current : mozilla-firefox (SSA:2011-122-01)

New mozilla-firefox 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 2011-122-01. The text itself...

Slackware 13.1 / current : mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2010-202-02)

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 2010-202-02. The text itself is...

Slackware 8.1 / current : 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. 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 13.0 / 13.1 / current : mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2010-343-02)

New mozilla-thunderbird 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 2010-343-02. The text itself is...

Slackware current : mutt remote exploit patched

An exploitable overflow has been found in the address handling code of the mutt mail client version 1.2.5i supplied with Slackware 8.0. A new mutt-1.2.5.1 has been released which addresses this problem, and packages are now available for Slackware 8.0 and -current. We urge all Slackware users to...

Slackware 13.0 / 13.1 / current : mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2010-317-01)

New mozilla-thunderbird 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 2010-317-01. The text itself is...

Slackware 13.1 / current : mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2010-253-02)

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 2010-253-02. The text itself is...

Slackware 13.1 / current : mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2010-176-04)

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 2010-176-04. The text itself is...

Slackware current : 64-bit kernel (SSA:2010-265-01)

New kernel packages are available for Slackware x8664 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 2010-265-01. The text itself is copyright C...

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 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 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 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 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 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 8.1 / 9.0 : Sendmail buffer overflow fixed (NEW)

The sendmail packages in Slackware 8.0, 8.1, and 9.0 have been patched to fix a security problem. Note that this vulnerability is NOT the same one that was announced on March 3rd and requires a new fix. All sites running sendmail should upgrade. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive te...