[slackware-security] cups

New cups packages are available for Slackware 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-2008-3639 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2008-3640...

[slackware-security] mtr

New mtr packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 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-2008-2357 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] espgs/ghostscript

New espgs or ghostscript packages are available for 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix a buffer overflow. Here are the details from the Slackware 12.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/espgs-8.15.4-i486-3slack12.0.tgz: This patched version of ESP Ghostscript fixes a buffer overflow. For more information o...

[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] 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] sendmail

New sendmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Sendmail's advisory concerning this issue may be found here: http://www.sendmail.com/company/advisory/index.shtml This issue will appear in the Common Vulnerabilities and...

lynx

New Lynx packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. An overflow could result in the execution of arbitrary code when using Lynx to connect to a malicious NNTP server. More details about this issue may be found in the Common...

[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:...

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...

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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-115.5.0-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mor...

[slackware-security] libwebp

New libwebp 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/libwebp-1.3.2-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Security fix for lossless decoder chromium: 1479274, CVE-2023-4863. For more informatio...

[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-102.13.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. 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-102.5.0esr-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-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] 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] 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] 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] lftp

New lftp 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/lftp-4.8.4-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. It has been discovered that lftp up to and including version 4.8.3 does not...

[slackware-security] mutt

New mutt 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/mutt-1.10.1-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues. Upstream strongly recommends that al...

[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] 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] 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-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Subversion servers and clients are vulnerable to a remotely triggerable...

[slackware-security] mercurial

New mercurial 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/mercurial-3.7.3-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues and bugs, including remo...

[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] bind

New bind 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/bind-9.9.7P1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue where an attacker who can caus...

[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-1.14-i486-3slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a symlink vulnerability that could allow an attacke...

[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] 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] pidgin

New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 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-2010-0013 Here are the details from the Slackware 13.0...

samba

New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 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-2009-1888...

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...

glib2

New glib2 packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix overflows that may be security issues. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2008-4316 Here are the details from 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] 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] 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] 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] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix security issues. Slackware is not vulnerable to either of these in its default configuration, but watch out if you've enabled JavaScript. More information about the security issues may be found here...