[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] 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] 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] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird 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-thunderbird-52.5.2-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mor...

[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] gnupg2

New gnupg2 packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. These packages will require the updated libgpg-error package. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnupg2-2.0.22-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed possible...

[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] pan

New pan 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-2008-2363 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog:...

[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] screen

New screen packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 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-2006-4573 Here are the details from the Slackware 11....

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] curl

New curl 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/curl-8.9.1-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: ASN.1 date parser overread. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind 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/bind-9.18.28-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Please note that we have moved to the 9.18 branch, as 9.16 is EOL. This update fixes securit...

[slackware-security] httpd

New httpd 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/httpd-2.4.61-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains the fix for the 2.4.60 regression, which has also been assigned a CVE...

[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] postfix

New postfix 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/postfix-3.6.14-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Security inbound SMTP smuggling: with "smtpdforbidbarenewline = normalize" default "no...

[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] 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-3.6.2-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This is a bugfix and security release. Relevant bugfixes: rar5 reader...

[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-52.7.0esr-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 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-45.4.0-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. F...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.1 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-31.3.0esr-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] sudo

New sudo packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, and 13.37 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/sudo-1.7.10p8-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue where if the envreset option is disabled in the...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey 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/seamonkey-2.21-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] httpd

New httpd packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, and -current. These have been compiled against the new versions of apr and apr-util, which were upgraded to fix a security issue that affects Apache httpd. It is recommended that all three updates be applied. Here...

[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-3.6.14-i686-1.txz: Upgraded. Firefox 3.6.14 is a regular security and stability update to Firefox 3.6....

[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 denial of service security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/pidgin-2.7.9-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed denial-of-service flaw in the MSN...

[slackware-security] irssi

New irssi packages are available for Slackware 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/irssi-0.8.15-i486-1slack13.0.txz: Upgraded. From the NEWS file: - Check if an SSL certificate...

seamonkey

New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla web site: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey11.html Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2...

util-linux umount privilege escalation

New util-linux packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issue with umount. A bug in the '-r' option could allow flags in /etc/fstab to be improperly dropped on user-mountable volumes, allowing a user to gain root privileges. For more details,...

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...

[slackware-security] curl

New curl 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/curl-8.14.1-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: WebSocket endless loop. 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-128.11.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. 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-128.10.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] perl

New perl 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/perl-5.34.3-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and a security issue: Heap-buffer-overflow with tr// Also upgraded Pe...

[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] 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-128.7.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox 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-firefox-115.16.1esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains a critical security fix: Use-after-free in...

[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-115.14.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] xpdf

New xpdf 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/xpdf-4.05-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Fixed a bug in the ICCBased color space parser that was...

[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-91.6.2-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] emacs

New emacs 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/emacs-25.3-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security vulnerability in Emacs. Gnus no...

[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-31.3.0-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[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-2.26.1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information,...

[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-2.23-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, se...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey 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/seamonkey-2.20-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix a security issue: "MFSA 2009-42 Compromise of SSL-protected communication" More details about the issue may be found here:...

wicd

New wicd packages are available for Slackware 12.2 and -current to fix a security issue with the D-Bus configuration file that could allow local information disclosure such as network credentials. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database:...

[slackware-security] libexif

New libexif packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix a crash and potential security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-4168 Here are the details from the Slackware...