[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 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 applications for...

[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] 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] 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...

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:...

[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...

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] 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...

[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] wget

New wget 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/wget-1.25.0-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Breaking change Drop support for shorthand FTP URLs CVE-2024-10524 Breaking change Switch to...

[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] 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] 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-102.13.1-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For...

[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] sysstat

New sysstat 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/sysstat-12.7.1-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. On 32 bit systems, in versions 9.1.16 and newer but prior to 12.7.1,...

[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-102.3.1-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 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] sudo

New sudo 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/sudo-1.8.28-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed a bug where an sudo user may be able to run a command as root when the...

[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] libXcursor

New libXcursor 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/libXcursor-1.1.15-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fix heap overflows when parsing malicious files...

[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] gtk+2

New gtk+2 packages are available for Slackware 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gtk+2-2.24.31-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Integer overflow in the gdkcairosetsourcepixbu...

[slackware-security] gimp

New gimp 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/gimp-2.8.18-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes a security issue: Use-after-free vulnerability in the...

[slackware-security] libarchive

New libarchive 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/libarchive-3.1.2-i486-2slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. Patched an issue with Zip archive handling that could allow an attacker to overwri...

[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] 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] git

New git 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/git-2.7.4-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. NOTE: Issuing this patch again since the bug reporter listed the wrong...

[slackware-security] git

New git 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/git-2.7.3-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed buffer overflows allowing server and client side remote code...

[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] 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] 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] libyaml

New libyaml packages are available for Slackware 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/libyaml-0.1.6-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a heap overflow in URI escape parsing of YAML in...

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] hplip

New hplip packages are available for Slackware 14.0 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/hplip-3.12.9-i486-4slack14.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update disables the automatic upgrade feature which can be easily fooled into downloading an...

[slackware-security] glibc

New glibc packages are available for Slackware 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/glibc-2.15-i486-8slack14.0.txz: Rebuilt. Patched to fix integer overflows in pvalloc, valloc, and...

[slackware-security] libssh

New libssh packages are available for Slackware 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libssh-0.5.3-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes several security bugs. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] slocate

New slocate packages are available for Slackware 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: Patched to use lstat64 and -DLARGEFILE64SOURCE. Thanks to Mancha+. Patched to fix information leak of filenames in protect...

[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, 13.37, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libtiff-3.9.6-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. Patched overflows th...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/seamonkey-2.0.9-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes some more security vulnerabilities. For more...

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...

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] 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] 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:...

gaim

New gaim packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix some security issues. including: AIM/ICQ away message buffer overflow AIM/ICQ non-UTF-8 filename crash Gadu-Gadu memory alignment bug Sites that use GAIM should upgrade to the new version. More details about...

libpng

New libpng packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, and -current to fix security issues. These issues could cause program crashes, or possibly allow arbitrary code embedded in a malicious PNG image to execute. The PNG library is widely used within the system, so all sites should...

kdepim security update

New kdepim packages are available for Slackware 9.0 and 9.1 to fix a security issue with .VCF file handling. For Slackware -current, a complete upgrade to kde-3.1.5 is available. Here are the details from the Slackware 9.1 ChangeLog: Wed Jan 14 11:58:58 PST 2004...

Sendmail buffer overflow fixed (NEW)

The sendmail packages in Slackware 8.0, 8.1, and 9.0 have been patched to fix a security problem. Note that this vulnerablity is NOT the same one that was announced on March 3rd and requires a new fix. All sites running sendmail should upgrade. More information on the problem can be found here:...