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...

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] amarok

New Amarok packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues. In addition, new supporting libgpod packages are available for Slackware 11.0 and 12.0, since a newer version of libgpod than shipped with these releases is required to run Amarok version 1.4.10...

[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:...

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...

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:...

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...

[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] libxml2

New libxml2 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/libxml2-2.11.8-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fix buffer overread with "xmllint --htmlout". xmllint: Fix --pedantic option. save:...

[slackware-security] python3

New python3 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/python3-3.9.19-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: bundled libexpat was updated to 2.6.0. zipfile is no...

[slackware-security] expat

New expat 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/expat-2.6.2-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Prevent billion laughs attacks with isolated use of external parsers. For more information,...

[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-115.8.0-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] 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] 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] 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-9.11.20-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: It was possible to trigger an INSIST in...

[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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] libssh

New libssh 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/libssh-0.6.4-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes some security issues. For more information, see:...

[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] udisks, udisks2

New udisks and udisks2 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/udisks-1.0.5-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a stack-based buffer overflow when handling long pat...

[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] 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] proftpd

New proftpd packages are available for Slackware 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/proftpd-1.3.3e-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixes CVE-2011-1137 badly formed SSH messages cause DoS...

[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] xorg server overflow

New xorg and xorg-devel packages are available for Slackware 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. A typo in the X render extension in X.Org 6.8.0 or later allows an X client to crash the server and possibly to execute arbitrary code as the X server user typically this is "root". More...

kcheckpass in kdebase

New kdebase packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issue with the kcheckpass program. Earlier versions of Slackware are not affected. A flaw in the way the program creates lockfiles could allow a local attacker to gain root privileges. For more details abo...

zlib DoS

New zlib packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a denial of service security issue. zlib 1.1.x is not affected. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database:...

ProFTPD Security Advisory

Upgraded ProFTPD packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0 and - -current. These fix a security issue where an attacker could gain a root shell by downloading a specially crafted file. Here are the details from the Slackware 9.0 ChangeLog: Tue Sep 23 14:43:10 PDT 2003...

[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] expat

New expat 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/expat-2.6.3-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update addresses security issues with impact ranging from denial of service to...

[slackware-security] util-linux

New util-linux 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/util-linux-2.37.4-i586-3slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This release fixes a vulnerability where the wall command did not filter escape...

[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-115.7.0-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 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] samba

New samba 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/samba-4.18.9-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This is a security release in order to address the following defect: An information leak...

[slackware-security] netatalk

New netatalk 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/netatalk-3.1.18-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and a security issue: Harden createappledesktopfolder. For mo...

[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] 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-60.2.0esr-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[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-1.0.5-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes some remote denial of service issues. For more information,...

[slackware-security] rxvt

New rxvt 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/rxvt-2.7.10-i586-5slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. Patched an integer overflow that can crash rxvt with an escap...

[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-9.10.4P4-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a denial-of-service vulnerability. A...

[slackware-security] gnupg

New gnupg 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/gnupg-1.4.16-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed the RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic...

[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] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 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/php-5.3.10-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. Fixed arbitrary remote code execution vulnerability reported ...

[slackware-security] pidgin

New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 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/pidgin-2.9.0-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. Fixed a remote denial of service. A remote attacker could set a...

[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...