[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] openvpn

New openvpn 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/openvpn-2.3.17-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes several denial of service issues...

[slackware-security] Linux kernel

New Linux kernel 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/linux-4.4.19/: Upgraded. A flaw was found in the implementation of the Linux kernels handling of networking challenge ack where...

[slackware-security] pcre

New pcre 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/pcre-8.38-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed overflows that could lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. For...

[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-4.2.8p2-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. In addition to bug fixes and enhancements, this release fixes the...

xorg-server

New xorg-server packages are available for Slackware 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-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes an input flush bug with evdev. Under exceptional...

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...

sudo

New sudo 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/sudo-1.8.6p7-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues that could allow a user to...

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...

[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] pidgin

New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 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/pidgin-2.7.11-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed denials of service caused by NULL pointer dereferences due...

apr-util

New apr-util packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 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-2009-2412 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2...

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, 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-2009-0040 Here are the...

[slackware-security] openssl

New openssl packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues. More details about this issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2008-0891 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2008-1672 Upgraded OpenSS...

[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] xine-lib

New xine-lib packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 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-2008-0073 Here are the details from the Slackware...

[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] samba

New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix security issues. More details about these issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-4572 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-5398 Here...

kdebase kdm local file reading vulnerability

New kdebase packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue with KDM the KDE login manager which could be exploited by a local attacker to read any file on the system. The official KDE security advisory 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,...

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] apache, mod_ssl, php

New apache and modssl packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, and -current to fix security issues. Apache has been upgraded to version 1.3.32 which fixes a heap-based buffer overflow in modproxy. modssl was upgraded from version modssl-2.8.19-1.3.31 to version 2.8.21-1.3.32 whic...

mc

New mc packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix security issues that These could lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code as the user running mc. Sites that use mc should upgrade to the new mc package. More details about this issue may be found in t...

Kernel security update

New kernels are available for Slackware 9.1 and -current. These have been upgraded to Linux kernel version 2.4.23, which fixes a bug in the kernel's dobrk function that could be exploited to gain root privileges. These updated kernels and modules should be installed by any sites running a 2.4...

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] 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-115.13.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] libcue

New libcue 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/libcue-2.2.1-i586-4slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Fixed a bug which could allow memory corruption resulting in arbitrary code execution. For...

[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-115.3.1-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains a security fix for a critical heap buff...

[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] 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-102.11.0esr-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-102.9.0-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mor...

[slackware-security] gnutls

New gnutls 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/gnutls-3.7.9-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. libgnutls: Fix a Bleichenbacher oracle in the TLS RSA key exchange. Reported by Hubert...

[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-68.5.0esr-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[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] 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-1.0.2u-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a low severity security issue: Fixed an an overflow bug in the x8664...

[slackware-security] ghostscript

New ghostscript 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/ghostscript-9.26-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixes security issues: A specially crafted PostScript file could have access to t...

[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] git

New git 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/git-2.14.1-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixes security issues: A "ssh://..." URL can result in a "ssh"...

[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] glibc

New glibc 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/glibc-2.23-i586-2slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. Applied upstream security hardening patches from git. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] libgcrypt

New libgcrypt 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/libgcrypt-1.7.8-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Mitigate a local flush+reload side-channel attack on RSA secret keys dubbed "Slidin...

[slackware-security] wget

New wget 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/wget-1.18-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This version fixes a security vulnerability present in all old...

[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] freetype

New freetype 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/freetype-2.5.5-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes a security bug that could cause freetype...

[slackware-security] openssh

New openssh 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/openssh-6.7p1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue that allows remote servers...

[slackware-security] httpd

New httpd 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/httpd-2.4.9-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update addresses two security issues. Segfaults with truncated cookie logging...

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] 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] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/php-5.3.15-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. Fixed potential overflow in phpstreamscandir CVE-2012-2688...