[slackware-security] irssi

New irssi 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/irssi-1.0.6-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes multiple security vulnerabilities. For more information, see:...

[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] freetype

New freetype 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/freetype-2.6.3-i586-2slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes an out-of-bounds write caused by a...

[slackware-security] subversion

New subversion 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/subversion-1.7.22-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Subversion servers and clients are vulnerable to a remotely triggerable...

[slackware-security] grub

New grub 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/grub-2.00-i486-3slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. Patched bug where password protection during system startup may be bypassed by hitting the...

[slackware-security] openssl

New openssl 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/openssl-1.0.1p-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes the following security issue: Alternative chains certificate...

[slackware-security] wpa_supplicant

New wpasupplicant 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/wpasupplicant-2.4-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes potential denial of service issues. For more...

libXfont

New libXfont 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/libXfont-1.4.7-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a stack overflow when reading a BDF font...

[slackware-security] openssh

New openssh 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/openssh-6.4p1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. sshd8: fix a memory corruption problem triggered during rekeying when an AES-GCM cipher...

[slackware-security] hplip

New hplip 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/hplip-3.12.9-i486-2slack14.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a stack-based buffer overflow in the...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind 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/bind-9.9.3P2-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue where a specially crafte...

[slackware-security] ruby

New ruby packages are available for Slackware 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/ruby-1.9.3p448-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update patches a vulnerability in Ruby's SSL client that could allow...

[slackware-security] libxml2

New libxml2 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/libxml2-2.8.0-i486-2slack14.0.txz: Rebuilt. Patched a heap-based buffer underflow in the...

[slackware-security] apr/apr-util

New apr and apr-util packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 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/apr-1.4.4-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. This fixes a possible denial of service du...

[slackware-security] libtiff

New libtiff packages are available for Slackware 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 security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libtiff-3.9.4-i486-2slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt. Patched overflows that could...

[slackware-security] kdegraphics

New kdegraphics packages are available for Slackware 13.1 to fix a security issue in the okular document viewer. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/kdegraphics-4.4.3-i486-3slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt. Patched "Okular PDB Processing Memory Corruption Vulnerability"...

[slackware-security] pidgin

New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/pidgin-2.7.0-i486-1slack13.0.txz: Upgraded. Upgraded to pidgin-2.7.0 and pidgin-encryption-3.1. The msnemoticonmsg...

[slackware-security] sudo

New sudo 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, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/sudo-1.7.2p6-i486-1slack13.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues...

subversion

New subversion packages are available for Slackware 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-2009-2411 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2...

gnutls

New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-1415 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-1416 Here are the...

xdg-utils

New xdg-utils packages are available for Slackware 12.2 and -current to fix security issues. Applications that use /etc/mailcap could be tricked into running an arbitrary script through xdg-open, and a separate flaw in xdg-open could allow the execution of arbitrary commands embedded in untrusted...

[slackware-security] fetchmail

New fetchmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 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-2008-2711 Here are the detail...

[slackware-security] apache

New apache 1.3.41 packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 to fix security issues. A new matching modssl package is also provided. More details about the issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database:...

[slackware-security] cairo

New cairo packages are available for Slackware 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-2007-5503 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.0 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] freetype

New x11 and/or freetype and fontconfig packages are available for Slackware 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix security issues in freetype. Freetype was packaged with X11 prior to Slackware version 11.0. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and 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-2006-5465 Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] mutt

New mutt packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a possible security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-3242 Here are the details from the...

[slackware-security] Samba DoS

New Samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security related but in my own and also the Samba's team member who made their WHATSNEW.txt entry, "minor" denial of service issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and...

[slackware-security] tetex PDF security

New tetex packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix a possible security issue. teTeX-3.0 incorporates some code from the xpdf program which has been shown to have various overflows that could result in program crashes or possibly the execution of arbitrary code as the teTeX...

[slackware-security] gaim

New gaim packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0 and -current to fix a buffer overflow in the MSN protocol. Sites that use GAIM should upgrade to the new version. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database:...

[slackware-security] samba DoS

New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0 and -current. These fix two denial of service vulnerabilities reported by iDEFENSE. Slackware -current has been upgraded to samba-3.0.7, while the samba-3.0.5 included with Slackware 10.0 has been patched to fix these issues. Sites running Samba...

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...

apache security update

Apache httpd is a hypertext transfer protocol server, and is used by over two thirds of the Internet's web sites. Upgraded Apache packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current. These fix local vulnerabilities that could allow users who can create or edit Apache config files to...

[slackware-security] xorg-server

New xorg-server 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/xorg-server-1.20.14-i586-11slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes security issues: Heap buffer overflow in DeviceFocusEvent an...

[slackware-security] LibRaw

New LibRaw 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/LibRaw-0.20.2-i586-4slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes security issues: A Buffer Overflow vulnerability was found in...

[slackware-security] c-ares

New c-ares 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/c-ares-1.19.1-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues: 0-byte UDP payload causes Denial of Service...

[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-102.9.1-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mo...

[slackware-security] xorg-server

New xorg-server 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/xorg-server-1.20.14-i586-5slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This release fixes 6 recently reported security vulnerabilities in various...

[slackware-security] mozilla-nss

New mozilla-nss 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-nss-3.84-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed a segmentation fault when the server requests a client auth cert but the...

[slackware-security] dhcp

New dhcp 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/dhcp-4.4.3P1-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes two security issues: Corrected a reference count leak...

[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-91.7.0-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mor...

[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-68.12.0-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mor...

[slackware-security] wavpack

New wavpack 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/wavpack-5.2.0-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed denial-of-service and other potential security issues. For more...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind 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/bind-9.11.13-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Set a limit on the number of concurrently...

[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-68.1.1-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey 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/seamonkey-2.49.5-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] Slackware 14.2 kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-4.4.190/: Upgraded. These updates fix various bugs and a minor local denial-of-service security issue. They also change this option:...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a denial-of-service security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bind-9.11.8-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed a race condition in dnsdispatchgetnext that could cause...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix bugs and security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-52.9.1-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements...

[slackware-security] xorg-server

New xorg-server 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/xorg-server-1.18.3-i586-5slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes integer overflows and other possible security...