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...

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, and -current to fix a security issue. More details about this issue may be found here: https://www.isc.org/node/373 http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-016.html...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, and 12.0 to fix a security issue and various other bugs. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-4138 Here are the details from the...

[slackware-security] ktorrent

New ktorrent packages are available for Slackware 11.0 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-2007-1384 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-1385 Here are the details from th...

[slackware-security] imagemagick

A new imagemagick package is available for Slackware 11.0 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-2006-5456 Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 to fix a denial-of-service security issue. More details about the issues fixed in Samba 3.0.24 may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-0452...

[slackware-security] openssl

New openssl packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 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-2006-2937 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-3738...

[slackware-security] openssl

New openssl packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a signature forgery security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2006-433...

[slackware-security] bind DoS

New bind packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a Denial of Service issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-4095 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-4096...

[slackware-security] KOffice/KWord

New KOffice packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue with KWord. A buffer overflow in the RTF import functionality could result in the execution of arbitrary code. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and...

OpenSSL

New OpenSSL packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Under certain conditions, an attacker acting as a "man in the middle" may force a client and server to fall back to the less-secure SSL 2.0 protocol. More details about this iss...

telnet client

New tcpip packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issues with the telnet client. Overflows in the telnet client may lead to the execution of arbitrary code as the telnet user if the user connects to a malicious telnet server. More details abo...

[slackware-security] libtiff

New libtiff packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues that could lead to application crashes, or possibly execution of arbitrary code. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database:...

rsync update

New rsync packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix a security issue. When running an rsync server without the chroot option it is possible for an attacker to write outside of the allowed directory. Any sites running rsync in that mode should upgrade right away and...

cvs security update

CVS is a client/server version control system. As a server, it is used to host source code repositories. As a client, it is used to access such repositories. This advisory affects both uses of CVS. A security problem which could allow a server to create arbitrary files on a client machine, and...

WU-FTPD Security Advisory

Upgraded WU-FTPD packages are available for Slackware 9.0 and - -current. These fix a problem where an attacker could use a specially crafted filename in conjunction with WU-FTPD's conversion feature mostly used to compress files, or produce tar archives to execute arbitrary commands on the serve...

[slackware-security] httpd

New httpd 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/httpd-2.4.67-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes bugs and the following security issues: modproxyajp: Heap Over-Read and...

[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-3.8.13-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Add more checks to DTLS reassembly. Previously, gnut...

[slackware-security] ffmpeg

New ffmpeg packages are available for Slackware 15.0 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/ffmpeg-4.4.5-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update addresses several vulnerabilities in FFmpeg which could result in denial of service, or...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: extra/php81/php81-8.1.28-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Command injection via array-ish $command parameter of procopen...

[slackware-security] libvpx

New libvpx 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/libvpx-1.12.0-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains two security related fixes -- one each for VP8 and VP9. 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-102.11.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. 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 security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/vim-9.0.1146-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed security issues: Out-of-bounds Read in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1143...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba 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/samba-4.15.12-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed a security issue where Samba's Kerberos libraries and AD DC failed to guard against...

[slackware-security] expat

New expat 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/expat-2.5.0-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Fix heap use-after-free after...

[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-102.4.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[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-9.0.0334-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed use after free. 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 security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mariadb-10.5.15-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes potential denial-of-service vulnerabilities. For more information,...

[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-68.9.0-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[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-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Upgraded to nss-3.40.1 and nspr-4.20. Mitigate cache side-channel...

[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] mariadb

New mariadb 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/mariadb-10.0.33-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-1.7.9-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Mitigate a local side-channel attack on Curve25519 dubbed "May the Fourth be With...

[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 security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bind-9.10.5P2-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a high severity security issue: An error ...

[slackware-security] irssi

New irssi 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/irssi-1.0.3-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed security issues that may result in a denial of service...

[slackware-security] mcabber

New mcabber 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/mcabber-1.0.5-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: An incorrect implementation of XEP-028...

[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 security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/curl-7.51.0-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes security issues: CVE-2016-8615: cookie...

[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-9.10.4P2-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed a security issue: getrrsetbyname with a non absolute...

[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-8.39-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes bugs including a couple of DoS security issues, and retrofits to PCRE1 some...

[slackware-security] imagemagick

New imagemagick 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/imagemagick-6.8.610-i486-3slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. Removed popen support to prevent another shell vulnerability. This issu...

[slackware-security] mercurial

New mercurial 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/mercurial-3.8.1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes possible arbitrary code execution when...

[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-9.9.8P3-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes two possible denial-of-service issues: renderec...

[slackware-security] gnutls

New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. IMPORTANT: On Slackware 14.0, install the new updated nettle package first. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnutls-3.3.17.1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This...

[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-5.5.37-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements...

[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-4.1.6-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes two security issues: CVE-2013-4496: Samba versions 3.4.0 and above...

curl

New curl 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/curl-7.35.0-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a flaw where libcurl could, in some circumstance...

samba

New samba packages are available for Slackware 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/samba-4.1.4-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a heap-based buffer overflow that may allow AD domain controllers to...

[slackware-security] dbus

New dbus 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/dbus-1.4.20-i486-4slack14.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a security issue where misuse of valist could be used to cause a denial of...

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...