[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-9.0.0270-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. We're just going to move to vim-9 instead of continuing to backport patches to the vim-8...

[slackware-security] git

New git 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/git-2.17.4-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: With a crafted URL that contains a newline in...

[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] 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-68.3.0esr-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] irssi

New irssi 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/irssi-1.1.3-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Use after free when sending SASL login to...

[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-9.11.6P1-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: The TCP client quota set using the...

[slackware-security] wget

New wget 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/wget-1.19.2-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes stack and heap overflows in in HTTP protoco...

[slackware-security] pidgin

New pidgin 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/pidgin-2.12.0-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a minor security issue out of bounds...

[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-9.10.4P6-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a denial-of-service vulnerability. Under...

[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-9.10.4P5-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a denial-of-service vulnerability. An...

[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] 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] 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-7.47.1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue where NTLM credentials are not...

[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] ppp

New ppp 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/ppp-2.4.5-i486-3slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. Fixed a potential security issue in parsing option files. Fixed remotel...

[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] xrdb

New xrdb packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/xrdb-1.0.9-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. This fixes a security issue where improperly sanitized input could...

[slackware-security] pidgin

New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/pidgin-2.7.5-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. This update addresses some denial of service bugs. For more...

[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...

kernel DoS

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix a denial of service security issue. Without a patch to asm-i386/i387.h, a local user can crash the machine. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database:...

[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-5.15.208/kernel-generic-5.15.208-i586-1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: net: skbuff: propagate shared-frag...

[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-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-115.6.0-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mor...

[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-115.5.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. Thanks to...

[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] 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-9.0.1418-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed security issues: NULL pointer dereference issue in utfcptr2len. Incorrect Calculation o...

[slackware-security] libarchive

New libarchive packages are available for Slackware 14.1, 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libarchive-3.6.1-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This is a bugfix and security release. Security fixes: 7zip reader: f...

[slackware-security] libvorbis

New libvorbis 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/libvorbis-1.3.7-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fix out-of-bounds read encoding very low sample rates. For more...

[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] php

New php 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: Several security bugs have been fixed in this release: Segfault when using convert.quoted-printable-encode filter. Null pointer dereference i...

[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-0.8.21-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed security issues that may result in a denial of servic...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird 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/mozilla-thunderbird-24.8.1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] 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-4.1.11-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a remote code execution attack on unauthenticated nmbd NetBIOS name...

[slackware-security] libexif

New libexif packages are available for Slackware 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/libexif-0.6.21-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a number of remotely...

[slackware-security] shadow

New shadow packages are available for Slackware 13.1 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/shadow-4.1.4.3-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt. This release fixes a security issue where local users may be able to add themselves to N...

[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...

[slackware-security] m4

New m4 packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 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-2008-1687...

[slackware-security] koffice

A new koffice package is available for Slackware 10.2 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-2006-6120 Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] gnupg DoS

New GnuPG packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues which could allow an attacker to crash gnupg and possibly overwrite memory which could lead to an integer overflow. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabiliti...

tcpdump DoS

New tcpdump packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issue. A specially crafted BGP packet can cause tcpdump to go into an infinite loop, creating a denial of service where network monitoring is disabled. More details about this issue may be...

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...