[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] 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] 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] 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...

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] 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 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/php-5.4.16-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This is a bugfix release. It also fixes a security issue -- a...

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...

openssl

New openssl 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/openssl-1.0.1d-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. Make the decoding of SSLv3, TLS and DTLS CBC records...

curl

New curl packages are available for Slackware 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/curl-7.29.0-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. When negotiating SASL DIGEST-MD5 authentication, the function Curlsaslcreatedigestmd5messag...

[slackware-security] glibc

New glibc packages are available for Slackware 13.1, 13.37, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/glibc-2.13-i486-6slack13.37.txz: Rebuilt. Patched multiple integer overflows in the strtod, strtof, strtold, and strtodl...

[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] glibc

New glibc packages are available for Slackware 13.1, 13.37, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/glibc-2.13-i486-5slack13.37.txz: Rebuilt. Patched an overflow in tzfile. This was evidently first reported in 2009, but is on...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind packages are available for Slackware 13.37, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bind-9.7.3P3-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. A specially constructed packet will cause BIND 9 "named" to exit, affecting DNS service...

[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...

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] x11

New x11 packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. In addition, fontconfig and freetype have been split out from the x11 packages in -current, so if you run -current you'll also need to install those new packages. More details about the issues may be found here...

[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,...

X.Org pixmap overflow

New X.Org server packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. An integer overflow in the pixmap handling code may allow the execution of arbitrary code through a specially crafted pixmap. Slackware 10.2 was patched against this vulnerability before...

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...

PCRE library

New PCRE packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issue. A buffer overflow could be triggered by a specially crafted regular expression. Any applications that use PCRE to process untrusted regular expressions may be exploited to run arbitrary...

[slackware-security] kde

New kdelibs and kdebase packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, and -current to fix security issues. More details about this issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0689...

[slackware-security] glibc

New glibc 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/aaaglibc-solibs-2.33-i586-7slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/glibc-2.33-i586-7slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes security...

[slackware-security] vim

New vim 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/vim-9.0.2127-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed security issues. Thanks to marav for the heads-up. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] mariadb

New mariadb 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/mariadb-10.5.23-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and a security issue: Vulnerability allows high privileged...

[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] 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] 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-2.35.6-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes two security issues: CVE-2022-41903: git log has the...

[slackware-security] gnupg2

New gnupg2 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/gnupg2-2.2.36-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. g10: Fix possibly garbled status messages in NOTATIONDATA. This bug could trick GPGME an...

[slackware-security] curl

New curl 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/curl-7.72.0-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: libcurl: wrong connect-only connection 98 F...

[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-68.4.1-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] openvpn

New openvpn 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/openvpn-2.4.6-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This is a security update fixing a potential double-fre...

[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] samba

New samba 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/samba-4.4.16-i586-2slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. This is a security update in order to patch the following defects: CVE-2017-147...

[slackware-security] curl

New curl 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/curl-7.56.0-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: libcurl may read outside of a heap allocate...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba 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/samba-4.4.16-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This is a security release in order to address the following defects: SMB1/2/3...

[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] 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] openssl

New openssl packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssl-1.0.2j-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Missing CRL sanity check CVE-2016-7052 For more...

[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] 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: +...

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...