[slackware-security] qt

New qt packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, and 12.0 to fix format string errors. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-3388 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.0 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] file [and bin package]

New file packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix a security issue. NOTE: In Slackware 11.0 and earlier, the file utility was part of the required "bin" package, so this patch is needed even if your machine does not have a "file" package...

[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] 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] CUPS DoS

New CUPS packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, and -current to fix a denial of service issue where a malformed packet can crash the CUPS server. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database:...

cvs

New cvs packages that have been upgraded to cvs-1.11.17 are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix various security issues. Sites running a CVS server should upgrade to the new CVS package right away. More details about the issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and...

kdelibs

New kdelibs packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1 and -current to fix security issues with URI handling. 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-2004-0411 Here are the details fr...

tcpdump denial of service

Upgraded tcpdump packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix denial-of-service issues. Sites using tcpdump should upgrade to the new packages. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database:...

Kernel security update

New kernels are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1 and -current. The 9.1 and -current kernels have been upgraded to 2.4.24, and a fix has been backported to the 2.4.21 kernels in Slackware 9.0 to fix a bounds-checking problem in the kernel's mremap call which could be used by a local attacker to ga...

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...

2.4.21 kernels available

Precompiled Linux 2.4.21 kernels and source packages are now available for Slackware 9.0 and -current. These provide an improved version of the ptrace fix that had been applied to 2.4.20 in Slackware 9.0 for example, command line options now appear correctly when root does 'ps ax', and fix a...

[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-1.34.7-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes the following security issues: Use-after-free / double-free in c-ares'...

[slackware-security] Slackware 15.0 php82

New php82 packages are available for Slackware 15.0 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: extra/php82/php82-8.2.32-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: OpenSSL: Fixed memory corruption zendmmheap corrupted in opensslencrypt...

[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-140.12.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For...

[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/php81-8.1.32-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: LibXML: libxml streams use wrong content-type header when...

[slackware-security] cups

New cups 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/cups-2.4.9-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and a security issue: When starting the cupsd server with a Listen...

[slackware-security] less

New less 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/less-653-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update patches a security issue: less through 653 allows OS command execution via a newlin...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox 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-firefox-115.9.1esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a critical security issue: An attacker was able ...

[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] 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] 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-102.5.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[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] hunspell

New hunspell 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/hunspell-1.7.1-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed invalid read operation in SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx. Fo...

[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-i586-3slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Fix use after free. Thanks to marav for the heads-up. For more information, see:...

[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-7.71.0-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: curl overwrite local file with -J 111 Partial...

[slackware-security] sane

New sane 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/sane-1.0.30-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes several security issues. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] rpcbind

New rpcbind 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/rpcbind-0.2.4-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Patched a bug which can cause a denial of service through memory exhaustion. Thanks to...

[slackware-security] libpng

New libpng 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/libpng-1.6.27-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes an old NULL pointer dereference bug i...

[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-9.10.4P3-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a denial-of-service vulnerability. Testi...

[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-i486-2slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. This update patches two security issues: CVE-2016-2167: svnserve/sasl may...

[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] libsndfile

New libsndfile 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/flac-1.3.1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update is needed by the latest version of libsndfile...

[slackware-security] php

New php 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/php-5.4.19-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed handling null bytes in subjectAltName CVE-2013-4248. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] gnupg / libgcrypt

New gnupg and libgcrypt packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue. New libgpg-error packages are also available for Slackware 13.1 and older as the supplied version wasn't new enough to compile the fixed version of libgcrypt. He...

[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] 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, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bind-9.7.4-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. This BIND update...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba 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/samba-3.5.10-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. Fixed cross-site request forgery and cross-site scripting vulnerability in SWAT t...

[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"...

samba

New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 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-2009-2813...

curl

New curl packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix a security issue. For more information, see: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/security.html https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-2417 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2 ChangeLog:...

ntp

New ntp 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 a fix security issue. More details about this issue may be found here: https://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/announce/2009-January/000055.html...

[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 possible security vulnerability involving the reading of uninitialized memory. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database:...

[slackware-security] libxslt

New libxslt packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix a security issue. More details about the issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2008-1767 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog:...

[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] qt

New qt packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 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-2007-0242 Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] xine-lib

New xine-lib packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 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-2006-2200 Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0...

[slackware-security] x11

New x11 X.Org packages are available for Slackware 10.2, and -current to fix security issues due to overflows in font parsing. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-3739...

[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...

SSA-2006-0628032502

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:...