[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-3.7.2-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes multiple security vulnerabilities in the PAX writer...

[slackware-security] cups

New cups packages are available for Slackware 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/cups-2.4.6-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed use-after-free when logging warnings in case of failures in cupsdAcceptClient. F...

[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-2.53.14-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-91.12.0-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mor...

[slackware-security] pidgin

New pidgin 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/pidgin-2.14.10-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and several security issues. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] aaa_base

New aaabase 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/aaabase-15.0-i586-4slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. If root's mailbox did not already exist, it would be created with insecure permissions...

[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-68.4.1esr-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes a critial security issue: Mozilla Foundation...

[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-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-38.7.1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] mozilla-nss

New mozilla-nss 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/mozilla-nss-3.15.3-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[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...

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:...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

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

[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] seamonkey

New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlseamonkey Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] Slackware 11.0 x11-6.9.0 patch fix

A new x11-6.9.0-i486-14slack11.0.tgz patch is available for Slackware 11.0 to fix the inadvertent inclusion of two old fontconfig binaries. Installing the original fontconfig patch followed by the original x11 patch would cause fc-cache and fc-list to be overwritten by old versions, breaking...

[slackware-security] gnupg

New GnuPG packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current 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-2006-0455 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-0049 Here are...

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,...

(FALSE ALARM ON) ncftp

Hey folks, An advisory recently went out on NcFTP, but it appears that the issue in question was fixed long ago in version 3.1.5, released on 2002-10-13. I received an email at [email protected] from a well-meaning user informing me that 3.1.9 had a security issue that was going unpatched: I...

[slackware-security] zlib DoS

New zlib packages are available for Slackware 10.0 and -current to fix a possible denial of service security issue. 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-2004-797 Here are the details...

BitchX security fixes

New BitchX packages are available to fix security problems found by Timo Sirainen. BitchX is an IRC Internet Relay Chat client. Under certain circumstances, a malicious IRC server could cause BitchX to crash, or possibly to run arbitrary code as the user running BitchX. All sites running BitchX a...

zlib upgrade fixes vulnerability

New zlib packages are available to fix a security problem which may impact programs that link with zlib. Here's the information from the Slackware 8.0 ChangeLog: ---------------------------- Mon Mar 11 13:32:40 PST 2002 patches/packages/zlib.tgz: Upgraded to zlib-1.1.4. This fixes a security...

wuftpd vulnerability - Slackware 4.0, 7.0, 7.1, -current

A vulnerability involving an input validation error in the "site exec" command has recently been identified in the wu-ftpd program CERT Advisory CA-2000-13. More information about this problem can be found at this site: http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-13.html The wu-ftpd daemon is part of...

wu-ftpd remote exploit patched

A remote exploit has been found in the FTP daemon, wu-ftpd. This can allow an attacker full access to your machine. The wu-ftpd daemon is part of the tcpip1.tgz package in the N series. A new tcpip1.tgz package is now available in the Slackware 7.1 tree. We have also provided a seperate patch...

[slackware-security] pcre2

New pcre2 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/pcre2-10.49-i586-1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue. An attacker-controlled regex pattern could lead to an...

[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-140.13.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] libarchive

New libarchive packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: Tue Jun 23 23:52:16 UTC 2026 patches/packages/libarchive-3.8.8-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Libarchive 3.8.8 is a security, bugfix and minor...

[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-140.12.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind 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/bind-9.18.50-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Fix DNS64 owner case after DNAME restart. When BIND 9 i...

[slackware-security] libexif

New libexif 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/libexif-0.6.26-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: An unsigned integer underflow in Fuji and Olympus...

[slackware-security] libarchive

New libarchive 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/libarchive-3.8.6-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues: libarchive: fix incompatibility with...

[slackware-security] telnet

New telnet 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/telnet-0.17-i586-7slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a security issue: The nextitem function in telnetd/utility.c has no bound...

[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-8.17.0-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: OpenSSL partial chain store policy bypass. bearer token le...

[slackware-security] sqlite

New sqlite 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/sqlite-3.50.4-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: A memory corruption issue caused by improper handling...

[slackware-security] libvpx

New libvpx 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/libvpx-1.12.0-i586-2slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a security issue: Use after free in libvpx allows an attacker to...

[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/python3-3.9.23-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: gh-135034: CVE-2024-12718 CVE-2025-4138 CVE-2025-433...

[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-128.11.0esr-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 security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-128.4.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] emacs

New emacs 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/emacs-29.4-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Emacs 29.4 is an emergency bugfix release intended to fix a security vulnerability: Arbitrar...

[slackware-security] freerdp

New freerdp 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/freerdp-2.9.0-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed multiple client side input validation issues. 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-91.9.0-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] freerdp

New freerdp 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/freerdp-2.7.0-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update is a security and maintenance release. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] ntp

New ntp 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/ntp-4.2.8p15-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes one vulnerability: Associations that use CMAC authentication...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox 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-firefox-38.4.0esr-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox 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-firefox-31.4.0esr-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[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] 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-24.7.0-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-2.23-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 13.37 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/seamonkey-2.3.3-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...