[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey 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/seamonkey-2.33.1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information,...

[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] gimp

New gimp packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, and 12.0 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-2007-2949 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.0 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] libpng

New libpng packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 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-2006-5793 Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0...

[slackware-security] qt

New qt packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 to fix a possible security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-4811 Trolltech has put out a press release which may be...

Mozilla/Firefox

New Mozilla and Firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues: MFSA 2005-59 Command-line handling on Linux allows shell execution MFSA 2005-58 Firefox 1.0.7 / Mozilla Suite 1.7.12 Vulnerability Fixes MFSA 2005-57 IDN heap overrun using...

CVS

New CVS packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0753 Here are the details from t...

GAIM security update

GAIM is a GTK2-based Instant Messaging IM client. New GAIM packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, and -current. 12 vulnerabilities were found in the instant messenger GAIM that allow remote compromise. All sites using GAIM should upgrade to these new packages. These are based on GAIM 0.75...

Updated KDE packages available

New KDE 3.1.1a packages are available for Slackware 9.0 which fix a security problem with the handling of PS and PDF documents. Here are the details from the Slackware 9.0 ChangeLog: Thu Apr 17 15:32:15 PDT 2003 patches/packages/kde/: Upgraded to KDE 3.1.1a. Also included in this directory are a...

[slackware-security] libssh2

New libssh2 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/libssh2-1.11.1-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. src: add 'strict KEX' to fix CVE-2023-48795 "Terrapin Attack." For more information,...

[slackware-security] libpcap

New libpcap 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/libpcap-1.10.5-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Clean up sockinitaddress and its callers to avoid...

[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] 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] netatalk

New netatalk packages are available for Slackware 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/netatalk-3.1.17-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and a security issue: Validate data type in...

[slackware-security] libX11

New libX11 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/libX11-1.8.6-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes buffer overflows in InitExt.c that could at least...

[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-102.12.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] openssh

New openssh 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/openssh-9.3p1-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains fixes for a security problem and a memory safety problem. The memo...

[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-102.5.1-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mo...

[slackware-security] vim

New vim 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/vim-9.0.0500-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed heap-based buffer overflow. Thanks to marav for the heads-up. For more information, se...

[slackware-security] vim

New vim 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/vim-9.0.0396-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed use after free. Thanks to marav for the heads-up. 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-91.12.0-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mor...

[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-i586-3slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. xkb: switch to array index loops to moving pointers. xkb: add request length...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey 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/seamonkey-2.53.13-i686-1slack15.0.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 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-91.7.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] kdelibs

New kdelibs 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/kdelibs-4.14.38-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. kconfig: malicious .desktop files and others would execute code. For more information...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba 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/samba-4.4.15-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes an authentication validation bypass security issue: "Orpheu...

[slackware-security] stunnel

New stunnel 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/stunnel-5.35-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixes security issues: Fixed malfunctioning "verify = 4"...

[slackware-security] php

New php 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/php-5.6.20-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes bugs and security issues. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey 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/seamonkey-2.30-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, se...

[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-1.7.4p4-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. This fixes a flaw that coul...

[slackware-security] pidgin

New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, and -current to fix denial of service issues. More details about the issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2010-0277 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2010-0420...

[slackware-security] kdebase, kdelibs

New kdebase packages are available for Slackware 12.0 to fix security issues. A long URL padded with spaces could be used to display a false URL in Konqueror's addressbar, and KDM when used with no-password login could be tricked into logging a different user in without a password. This is not th...

[slackware-security] php

New PHP5 packages are available for Slackware 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, and 12.0 to fix "several low priority security bugs." Note that PHP5 was not officially supported in Slackware 10.1 or 10.2 being in the /testing directory, and was not the default version of PHP for Slackware 11.0 being in the /extr...

security issues in pine

Upgraded pine packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0 and - -current. These fix two security problems found by iDEFENSE Labs which could lead to arbitrary code execution when a specially crafted email is processed by Pine. This problem is fixed in Pine 4.58. Sites which use the Pine mail...

[slackware-security] libxslt

New libxslt 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/libxslt-1.1.43-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update addresses some security issues. Fix use-after-free of XPath context node. F...

[slackware-security] tigervnc

New tigervnc packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: extra/tigervnc/tigervnc-1.12.0-i586-7slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Recompiled against xorg-server-1.20.14, including a patch for a security issue: By...

[slackware-security] php81

New php81 packages are available for Slackware 15.0 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: extra/php81/php81-8.1.30-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues: Bypass of CVE-2024-4577, Parameter Injection Vulnerability...

[slackware-security] mariadb

New mariadb 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/mariadb-10.5.25-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and a security issue: Difficult to exploit vulnerability allow...

[slackware-security] libarchive

New libarchive 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/libarchive-3.7.3-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Fix possible vulnerability in tar error...

[slackware-security] pam

New pam 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/pam-1.6.0-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. pamnamespace.so: fixed a possible local denial-of-service vulnerability. For more information,...

[slackware-security] irssi

New irssi packages are available for Slackware 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/irssi-1.4.4-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Do not crash Irssi when one line is printed as the result of another line being...

[slackware-security] vim

New vim 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/vim-9.0.0417-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed null pointer dereference. Thanks to marav for the heads-up. 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-52.7.4esr-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] libssh

New libssh 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/libssh-0.7.3-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed weak key generation. Due to a bug in the ephemeral secret key generation for...

[slackware-security] xorg-server

New xorg-server 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/xorg-server-1.14.3-i486-3slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes many security issues discovered by Ilja van Sprundel, a securi...

[slackware-security] pidgin

New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 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/pidgin-2.10.6-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. Fixes a security issue for users of MXit: Incorrect handing of inli...

[slackware-security] apr/apr-util

New apr and apr-util packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, and -current to fix a security issue in apr and a crash bug in apr-util. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/apr-1.4.5-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. This...

[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-3.6.4-i686-1.txz: Upgraded. This fixes some security issues. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] kdelibs

New kdelibs packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2 to fix a security issue with kjs. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-0019 Additional information may be found on the KDE website...

buffer overflow fix for NTP

The version of xntp3 that shipped with Slackware 7.1 as well as the version that was in Slackware -current contains a buffer overflow bug that could lead to a root compromise. Slackware 7.1 and Slackware -current users are urged to upgrade to the new packages available for their release. The...