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] 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/php82/php82-8.2.31-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: FPM: Fixed XSS within status endpoint. MBString: Fixed Null...

[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] 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] 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] 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-102.7.1-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mo...

SSA-2022-0906204408

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 15.0 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-102.2.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

[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-91.6.0-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[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] libtirpc

New libtirpc 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/libtirpc-1.0.1-i586-3slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. Patched a bug which can cause a denial of service through memory exhaustion. Thanks to...

[slackware-security] mutt

New mutt packages are available for Slackware 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/mutt-1.5.23-i486-2slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. Patched a vulnerability where malformed headers can cause mutt to crash. For mo...

[slackware-security] xpdf

New xpdf 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/xpdf-3.03-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. Sanitize error messages to remove escape sequences that could ...

[slackware-security] patch

New patch 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: patches/packages/patch-2.7-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. This version of patch ignores destination filenames that are...

[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] samba

New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix a denial of service security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/samba-3.5.7-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. Fix memory corruption...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-3.6.13-i686-1.txz: Upgraded. This fixes some security issues. For more information, see:...

[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] gimp

New gimp packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, and -current to fix security issues. More details about these issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-1570 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-3909 Here are the...

[slackware-security] tcpdump

New tcpdump packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, and 12.0 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-2007-3798 Here are the details from the Slackware...

[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...

[slackware-security] sudo

New sudo packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 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-2006-0151 Here are the details from the Slackware...

gaim

New gaim packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix several security issues. Sites that use GAIM should upgrade to the new version. Here are the details from the Slackware 10.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gaim-1.3.0-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gaim-1.3.0. This fixe...

mutt security update

Mutt is a text-based program for reading electronic mail. New mutt packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current. These have been upgraded to version 1.4.2i to fix a buffer overflow that could lead to a machine compromise. All sites using mutt should upgrade to the new mutt...

fetchmail security update

Fetchmail is a mail-retrieval and forwarding utility. Upgraded fetchmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current. These fix a vulnerability where a specially crafted email could crash fetchmail, preventing the user from downloading or forwarding their email. More details...

gdm security update

GDM is the GNOME Display Manager, and is commonly used to provide a graphical login for local users. Upgraded gdm packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, and -current. These fix two vulnerabilities which could allow a local user to crash or freeze gdm, preventing access to the machine unti...

[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] 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/python3-3.9.20-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Bundled libexpat was updated to 2.6.3. Fix quadratic...

[slackware-security] tigervnc

New tigervnc packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: extra/tigervnc/tigervnc-1.12.0-i586-6slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Recompiled against xorg-server-1.20.14, including the latest patches for several securit...

[slackware-security] netatalk

New netatalk 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/netatalk-3.1.15-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues, including a critical vulnerability th...

[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-3.87-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed memory corruption in NSS via DER-encoded DSA and RSA-PSS signatures. For...

[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-91.12.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] wavpack

New wavpack packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/wavpack-5.5.0-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. WavPack 5.5.0 contains a fix for CVE-2021-44269 wherein encoding a...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba 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/samba-4.6.16-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This is a security release in order to address the following defects:...

[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-2.49.4-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. 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-52.8.1esr-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird 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-thunderbird-52.8.0-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. 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-52.8.0esr-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox 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/mozilla-firefox-52.7.2esr-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[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-9.10.6P1-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a high severity security issue: Improper...

[slackware-security] libXres

New libXres 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/libXres-1.2.0-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Integer overflows may allow X servers to trigger allocation of insufficient memo...

[slackware-security] gegl

New gegl 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/gegl-0.2.0-i586-4slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. Patched integer overflows in operations/external/ppm-load.c that could allow a...

[slackware-security] minicom

New minicom 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/minicom-2.7.1-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fix an out of bounds data access that can lead to remot...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-45.7.0-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. F...

[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-7.49.0-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed a TLS certificate check bypass with mbedTLS/PolarSSL. For mo...