[slackware-security] libpng

New libpng packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix a security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-2445 Here are the details from the...

lha update in bin package

New bin- packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix buffer overflows and directory traversal vulnerabilities in the 'lha' archive utility. Sites using 'lha' should upgrade to the new bin package right away. More details about these issues may be found in the Common...

[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] 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-115.8.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[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] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird 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/mozilla-thunderbird-91.6.1-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mor...

[slackware-security] mozilla-nss

New mozilla-nss packages are available for Slackware 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/mozilla-nss-3.40.1-i586-2slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a critical security issue: NSS Network Security...

[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] 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] 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] xorg-server

New xorg-server packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 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-i586-3slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes two security issues: A user...

[slackware-security] mariadb

New mariadb 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/mariadb-10.0.30-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Crash in libmysqlclient.so. Difficult to exploit...

[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] gnutls

New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 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/gnutls-3.4.15-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes some bugs and security issues. For more information, see:...

[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:...

[slackware-security] libtasn1

New libtasn1 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/libtasn1-3.6-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Multiple security issues have been corrected in the libtasn1 library. These error...

[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...

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] 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] libpng

New libpng 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: patches/packages/libpng-1.4.12-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. Fixed incorrect...

[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] dhcp

New dhcp packages are available for Slackware 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 a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/dhcp-4.1ESVR2-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. In dhclient, check the data for...

[slackware-security] xorg-server

New xorg-server 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/xorg-server-1.7.7-i486-2slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt. Patched to prevent overwriting stack memory and bypassi...

[slackware-security] gnupg2

New gnupg2 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/gnupg2-2.0.14-i486-3slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt. Patched to fix "Realloc Bug with X.509 certificates in GnuPG". F...

[slackware-security] ruby

New ruby packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 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-2008-2662 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2008-2663...

[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:...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-2444 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-2446...

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...

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] 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] 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] 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] git

New git packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/git-2.35.7-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Using a specially-crafted repository, Git...

[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-9.0.1241-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed a security issue: Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to...

[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-91.11.0-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mor...

[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] openssl

New openssl 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/openssl-1.0.2t-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes low severity security issues: Fixed a padding oracle in PKCS7dataDeco...

[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] x11

New x11 packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libX11-1.6.4-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Insufficient validation of data from the X server can cause o...

[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] openssh

New openssh 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/openssh-7.2p2-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes a security bug: sshd8: sanitise X11...

SSA-2014-0925230703

New bash packages are available for Slackware 13.0 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bash-3.1.018-i486-3slack13.0.txz: Rebuilt. The patch for CVE-2014-7169 needed to be rebased against bash-3.1 in order to apply correctly. Thanks to ...

[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] 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:...

dhcp

New dhcp 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, and -current to fix a security issue with dhclient. Note that dhclient is not the default DHCP client in Slackware's networking scripts, dhcpcd is. However, if you use dhclient on a network wher...

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...

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] 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...

[slackware-security] cups

CUPS was found to contain errors in ipp.c which could allow a remote attacker to crash CUPS, resulting in a denial of service. If you use CUPS, it is recommended to update to the latest package for your version of Slackware. The latest cups package is available for Slackware -current, and patched...