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...

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] 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-140.10.1esr-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] plasma-workspace

New plasma-workspace packages are available for Slackware 15.0 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/plasma-workspace-5.23.5-i586-4slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update patches a security issue: ksmserver: Unauthorized users can access...

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

[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] 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] 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] 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-4.4.5-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes a security issue: Client side SMB2/3 required signing can be...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba 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/samba-4.1.23-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs, and two security issues: Incorrect ACL get/set allowed on symlink...

[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-4.1.16-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update is a security release in order to address CVE-2014-8143 Elevation of privilege...

[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] 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] 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] sudo

New sudo 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, 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/sudo-1.7.4p6-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. Fix Runas group password...

[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] 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] arts

New aRts packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a possible security issue with artswrapper. The artswrapper program and the artsd daemon can be used to gain root privileges if artswrapper is setuid root and the system is running a 2.6.x kernel. Note that...

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:...

[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-128.4.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For...

[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] netatalk

New netatalk 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/netatalk-3.2.1-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Shared library .so-version bump. Fixed security issues that could lead to a denial of...

[slackware-security] emacs

New emacs 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/emacs-29.3-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. GNU Emacs through 28.2 allows attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in the...

[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-115.8.1-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mo...

[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] gimp

New gimp 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/gimp-2.10.36-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes security issues: If a user loads a malicious DDS, PSD, or PSP file, this...

[slackware-security] libnotify

New libnotify 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/libnotify-0.8.3-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains a critical stability/minor security update which affects...

[slackware-security] cups-filters

New cups-filters 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-filters-1.28.17-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. PATCH Merge pull request from GHSA-gpxc-v2m8-fr3x. With execv command line...

[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...

[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...

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] 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] 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] 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 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] 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] 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] 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] curl

New curl 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/curl-7.50.1-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes security issues: TLS: switch off SSL sessi...

[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...

[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] 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...

pidgin

New pidgin 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/pidgin-2.10.9-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes various security issues and other bugs. For...

[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] 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...