[slackware-security] kdebase-workspace

New kdebase-workspace packages are available for Slackware 13.0 and -current to fix a security issue with KDM. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/kdebase-workspace-4.2.4-i486-2slack13.0.txz: Rebuilt. Patched a security issue with KDM. For more information, se...

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...

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...

git

New git 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-2008-3546 There are other security issues related to gitweb, which...

[slackware-security] gnutls

New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix a security issue. NOTE: The package for 12.0 has a different shared library soname, and the packages for 12.1 and -current have an API/ABI change. Only the Pidgin package in Slackware links with GnuTLS, and upgraded...

[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] openssh

New openssh packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, and 12.0 to fix a possible security issue. This version should also provide increased performance with certain ciphers. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CV...

[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] gnupg

New gnupg packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 to fix security ramifications of incorrect gpg usage. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-1263 Here are the details...

[slackware-security] xine-lib

New xine-lib packages are available for Slackware 10.2 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-2005-4048 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-2802 Evidently there is also an...

[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...

mod_ssl

New modssl packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix a security issue. The packages were upgraded to modssl-2.8.18-1.3.31 fixing a buffer overflow that may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a client certificate with a long subject DN, if modssl is...

minor advisory typo

The recently issued kernel advisory SSA:2003-336-01 reads: "More details about the Apache issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0961" This should say "kernel", not "Apache". Sorry for any confusion. The...

[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-140.11.1esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For...

[slackware-security] kernel

New kernel 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/linux-5.15.207/kernel-generic-5.15.207-i586-1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: ptrace: slightly saner 'getdumpable'...

[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] 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] 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] 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] apr-util

New apr-util 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/apr-util-1.6.3-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Integer Overflow or Wraparound vulnerability in...

[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-102.5.0-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mor...

[slackware-security] krb5

New krb5 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/krb5-1.19.2-i586-3slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Fixed integer overflows in PAC parsing. Fixed memory leak in OTP kdcpreauth module. Fixed...

[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-8.2.4649-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixes a use-after-free in utfptr2char in vim/vim prior to 8.2.4646. This vulnerability is...

[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] curl

New curl 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/curl-7.60.0-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes: FTP: shutdown response buffer overflow RTS...

[slackware-security] dhcp

New dhcp 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/dhcp-4.4.1-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes two security issues: Corrected an issue wher...

[slackware-security] ruby

New ruby 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/ruby-2.2.9-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Net::FTPget, getbinaryfile, gettextfile, put,...

[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] 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] curl

New curl 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/curl-7.50.3-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed heap overflows in four libcurl functions: curlescape,...

[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] 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...

[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...

[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] 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...

[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] 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...

[slackware-security] bzip2

New bzip2 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, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bzip2-1.0.6-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes an intege...

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. Jeff Phillips discovered an uninitialized-memory-read bug affecting interlaced images that may have security implications. More details about this issue m...

openssl

New openssl packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix a security issue when connecting to an SSL/TLS server that uses a certificate containing a DSA or ECDSA key. More details about this issue may be found here: http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv20090107.txt...

[slackware-security] xorg-server

New xorg-server packages are available for Slackware 12.1 and -current to fix security issues in xorg-server 1.4 prior to version 1.4.2. More details about the issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2008-1377...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix a security issue: "Specifically crafted SMB responses can result in a heap overflow in the Samba client code. Because the server process, smbd, can itself act as a client during operations such ...

[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:...