kernel security updates

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 9.1 and -current to fix security issues. Also available are new kernel modules packages including alsa-driver, and a new version of the hotplug package for Slackware 9.1 containing some fixes for using 2.4.26 and 2.6.x kernel modules. The most serio...

OpenSSL security update

Upgraded OpenSSL packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current. These fix two potential denial-of-service issues in earlier versions of OpenSSL. We recommend sites that use OpenSSL upgrade to the fixed packages right away. More details about this issue may be found in the Commo...

New CVS packages available

New cvs packages are available to fix a security vulnerability. Here are the details from the Slackware 8.1 ChangeLog: ---------------------------- Tue Jan 21 13:12:20 PST 2003 patches/packages/cvs-1.11.5-i386-1.tgz: Upgraded to cvs-1.11.5. This release fixes a major security vulnerability in the...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-115.6.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] curl

New curl packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/curl-8.2.0-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: fopen race condition. For more...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-102.10.0-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mo...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-102.7.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] python3

New python3 packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/python3-3.9.14-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This is a security and bugfix release. gh-95778: Converting between int and str in bas...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/seamonkey-2.53.7-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-68.6.0-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/php-5.6.37-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Several security bugs have been fixed in this release, including: Int Overflow lea...

[slackware-security] gnupg

New gnupg packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnupg-1.4.23-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Sanitize the diagnostic output of the original file name i...

[slackware-security] mariadb

New mariadb packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and 14.2 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mariadb-10.0.34-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] openexr

New openexr packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openexr-2.2.0-i586-2slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. Patched bugs that may lead to program crashes or possibly execution of arbitrary code...

[slackware-security] gnutls

New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnutls-3.5.8-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes some bugs and security issues. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] imagemagick

New imagemagick packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/imagemagick-6.8.610-i486-2slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. This update addresses several security issues in ImageMagick, including:...

[slackware-security] mariadb

New mariadb packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mariadb-5.5.43-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

ntp

New ntp packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/ntp-4.2.6p5-i486-5slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. All stable versions of NTP remain vulnerable to a remote attack wher...

[slackware-security] hplip

New hplip packages are available for Slackware 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/hplip-3.12.9-i486-3slack14.0.txz: Rebuilt. This fixes a polkit race condition that could allow local users to bypass...

[slackware-security] xorg-server

New xorg-server packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/xorg-server-1.12.4-i486-2slack14.0.txz: Rebuilt. Patched a use-after-free bug that can cause an ...

[slackware-security] bind

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, 13.37, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: This release fixes an issue that could crash BIND, leading to a denial of service...

[slackware-security] httpd

New httpd packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/httpd-2.2.21-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. Respond with HTTPNOTIMPLEMENTED when the method is not...

[slackware-security] glibc

New glibc packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/glibc-2.11.1-i486-5slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt. Patched "The GNU C library dynamic linker will dlopen arbitrary DS...

udev

New udev packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. The udev packages in Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current contained a local root hole vulnerability: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-1185 The udev packages in Slackwar...

[slackware-security] libpng for Slackware 10.1 and 10.2

New libpng packages are available for Slackware 10.1 and 10.2 that were left out of the last batch of updates. These fix the same security problems as the other 1.2.23 upgrades. More details about these issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database:...

nfs-utils off-by-one overflow fixed

New nfs-utils packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, and -current to fix an off-by-one buffer overflow in xlog.c. Thanks to Janusz Niewiadomski for discovering and reporting this problem. The CVE Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project has assigned the identification number...

[slackware-security] tigervnc

New tigervnc packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: extra/tigervnc/tigervnc-1.12.0-i586-8slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Recompiled against xorg-server-1.20.14, including patches for security issues:...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-115.10.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] gnutls

New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnutls-3.8.4-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes two medium severity security issues: libgnutls: Fix side-channel in the...

[slackware-security] vim

New vim packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/vim-9.0.2063-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed use-after-free security issue. Thanks to marav for the heads-up. For more information,...

[slackware-security] rsync

New rsync packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/rsync-3.2.5-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Added some file-list safety checking that helps to ensure that a rogue...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-91.9.1-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] libexif

New libexif packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libexif-0.6.22-i486-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues: CVE-2018-20030: Fix for...

[slackware-security] xorg-server

New xorg-server packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/xorg-server-1.18.3-i586-4slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes two security issues: Xext/shm: Validate shmseg...

[slackware-security] openjpeg

New openjpeg packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openjpeg-2.3.0-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues which may lead to a denial of service or possibly...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a regression with the previous security patch. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/samba-4.4.13-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This is a bug fix release to address a regressio...

[slackware-security] kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.1 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-3.10.103/: Upgraded. A flaw was found in the implementation of the Linux kernels handling of networking challenge ack where an attacker is...

[slackware-security] ntp

New ntp packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/ntp-4.2.8-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. In addition to bug fixes and enhancements, this release fixes several...

[slackware-security] gnutls

New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnutls-3.1.25-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. A security issue has been corrected in gnutls. This vulnerabili...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/samba-4.1.1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes two security issues: Samba versions 3.2.0 and above do not check th...

[slackware-security] gnutls

New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and 13.37 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnutls-2.10.5-i486-2slack13.37.txz: Rebuilt. Updated to the correct version to fix fetching the "latest" from gnu.org...

[slackware-security] t1lib

New t1lib packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/t1lib-5.1.2-i486-3slack13.37.txz: Rebuilt. Patched various overflows, crashes, and pointer bugs. For more...

[slackware-security] proftpd

New proftpd packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and -current to a fix security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/proftpd-1.3.3c-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed Telnet IAC stack overflow vulnerability...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 11.0 extra, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/php-5.2.14-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed several security issues. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] cups

New cups packages are available for Slackware 13.1 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/cups-1.4.4-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed a memory allocation error in texttops. Fixed a Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF that coul...

poppler

New poppler packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, and -current to fix security issues. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-3603 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-3604...

pidgin

New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-1373 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-1374...

php

New php packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2008-5498 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix a possible security bug. More details about this issue may be found here: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2008-1380 http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlfirefox...

[slackware-security] httpd

New httpd packages are available for Slackware 12.0, and -current to fix security issues. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-6421 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-6422...