[slackware-security] libsoup

New libsoup packages are available for Slackware 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libsoup-2.52.2-i586-3slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. Fixed a chunked decoding buffer overrun that could be exploited against either...

[slackware-security] tcpdump

New tcpdump packages are available for Slackware 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/tcpdump-4.9.1-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes an issue where tcpdump 4.9.0 allows remote...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind 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/bind-9.10.5P1-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed denial of service security issue: Some RPZ...

[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] 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] jasper

New jasper 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/jasper-1.900.1-i486-4slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. Applied many security and bug fixes. Thanks to Heinz Wiesinger...

[slackware-security] wpa_supplicant

New wpasupplicant packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/wpasupplicant-2.3-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a remote command-execution vulnerability cause...

gnutls

New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnutls-3.1.21-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a flaw where a version 1 intermediate certificate would be...

[slackware-security] freetype

New freetype packages are available for Slackware 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: Since freetype-2.4.8 many fixes were made to better handle invalid fonts. Many of them are vulnerabilities see...

[slackware-security] openssl

New openssl packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 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/openssl-0.9.8p-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt. This OpenSSL update contains some security related...

[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] httpd

New httpd 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/httpd-2.2.16-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. Fix Handling of requests without a path segment. For more...

kernel

New Linux kernel packages are available for Slackware 13.0 and -current to address a security issue. A kernel bug discovered by David Ford may allow remote attackers to crash the kernel by sending an oversized IP packet. While the impact on ordinary servers is still unclear the problem was notice...

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] openssh

New openssh packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 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-2008-1483 Here are the details from...

[slackware-security] cups

New cups packages are available for Slackware 12.0, and -current to fix security issues. The change from CUPS 1.2.x to CUPS 1.3.x was tested here, but if you're on a completely secured internal network these issues may be less of a risk than upgrading. If your IPP port is open to the internet,...

[slackware-security] rsync

New rsync packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found here: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-4091 http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync-announce/2007/000050.html Here are the detai...

[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...

[slackware-security] bind

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-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, and -current to improve the stability and security of PHP. Quite a few bugs were fixed -- please see http://www.php.net for a detailed list. All sites that use PHP are encouraged to upgrade. Please note that we haven't tested all PHP...

[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,...

php5 in Slackware 10.1

A new php5 package is available for Slackware 10.1 in /testing to fix security issues. PHP has been relinked with the shared PCRE library to fix an overflow issue with PHP's builtin PRCE code, and PEAR::XMLRPC has been upgraded to version 1.4.0 which eliminates the eval function. The eval functio...

[slackware-security] gaim

New gaim packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0 and -current to fix several security issues. Sites that use GAIM should upgrade to the new version. Here are the details from the Slackware 10.0 ChangeLog: Thu Aug 26 17:14:09 PDT 2004 patches/packages/gaim-0.82-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to...

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...

rsync update fixes security problems

New rsync packages are available to fix security problems. Here's the information from the Slackware 8.0 ChangeLog: ---------------------------- Mon Mar 11 15:09:26 PST 2002 patches/packages/rsync.tgz: Upgraded to rsync-2.5.3. This fixes two security problems: Make sure that supplementary groups...

[slackware-security] freetype

New freetype packages are available for Slackware 15.0 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/freetype-2.13.3-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and a security issue: An out of bounds write exists in FreeType versions...

[slackware-security] curl

New curl 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/curl-8.7.1-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes the following security issues: TLS certificate check bypass with mbedTLS...

[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-i586-4slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Recompiled against xorg-server-1.20.14, including patches for several 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-115.4.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] cups

New cups packages are available for Slackware 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/cups-2.4.7-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and a security issue: Fixed Heap-based buffer overflow when...

[slackware-security] netatalk

New netatalk packages are available for Slackware 14.1, 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/netatalk-3.1.16-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues. Shared library .so-version...

[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-8.3.0-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: HTTP headers eat all memory...

[slackware-security] tar

New tar 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/tar-1.34-i586-2slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. GNU Tar through 1.34 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in use of...

[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 security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-91.13.0-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mor...

[slackware-security] xorg-server

New xorg-server packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Note that in slackware-current there are 4 issues fixed CVE-2021-4008, CVE-2021-4009, CVE-2021-4010, and CVE-2021-4011. In Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and 14.2 the earlier versions of xorg-server...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox 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-firefox-60.3.0esr-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] libzip

New libzip 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/libzip-1.0.1-i586-3slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. Fix a denial of service security issue. For more information, see:...

[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-10.0.32-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] kdelibs

New kdelibs packages are available for Slackware 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/kdelibs-4.14.32-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue with KAuth that can lead to...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-45.5.1esr-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mo...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind 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/bind-9.9.8P4-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed security issues: Fix resolver assertion failure due to...

[slackware-security] openssl

New openssl 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/openssl-1.0.1q-x8664-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes the following security issues: BNmodexp ma...

[slackware-security] libpng

New libpng 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/libpng-1.4.17-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed buffer overflows in the pngsetPLTE, pnggetPLTE, pngsettIM...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind 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/bind-9.9.7P3-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes two denial-of-service vulnerabilities: +...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind 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/bind-9.9.7P2-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue where an error in the handling...

mozilla-nss

New mozilla-nss packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-nss-3.15.4-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Upgraded to nss-3.15.4 and nspr-4.10.3. Fixes a possible...

[slackware-security] libtiff

New libtiff packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libtiff-3.9.7-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. Patched overflows, crashes, and out of bounds writes...

[slackware-security] gnutls

New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 14.0 and -current to fix a security issue. Sorry about having to reissue this one -- I pulled it from ftp.gnu.org not realizing that the latest version there was actually months out of date. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog:...

subversion

New subversion packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/subversion-1.7.9-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes some denial of service bugs: moddavsvn...