XV

New XV image viewer packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues. Format string and other issues could cause a crash or execution of arbitrary code if a specially crafted image is loaded with XV. Here are the details from the Slackware 10.1...

PHP packages updated again for 8.1, 9.0, 9.1

Sorry folks, I mistakenly used a build template that was too new to build the first round of PHP packages for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, and 9.1, which tried to place the module in /usr/libexec/apache older versions of Slackware use /usr/libexec instead, and tried to link to incorrect libraries and...

[slackware-security] rsync

New rsync 2.6.3 packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, and -current to a fix security issue when rsync is run as a non-chrooted server. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database:...

[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...

glibc glob overflow patched

A buffer overflow has been found in the glob3 function in glibc. Fixed packages for Slackware 8.0 are now available. Here's the information from the Slackware 8.0 ChangeLog: Fri Jan 11 14:07:07 PST 2002 patches/packages/glibc.tgz, patches/packages/glibcso.tgz: Fixed a buffer overflow in the glob3...

sendmail and procmail update

An input validation error in sendmail has been discovered by Cade Cairns of SecurityFocus. This problem can be exploited by local users to gain root access. It is not exploitable by remote attackers without shell access. New packages based on sendmail.8.11.6 have been prepared for Slackware 7.1 a...

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] 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-3.8.9-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. libgnutls: Fix potential DoS in handling certificates with numerous name constraints, as ...

[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] kcron

New kcron packages are available for Slackware 15.0 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/kcron-21.12.3-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: kcron: Invalid temporary file handling. Thanks to pbslxw for the...

[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] 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-3.6.13-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Security: this release adds support to defend against an email spoofing attack SMTP...

[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-i586-2slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Copy /etc/pam.d/login to /etc/pam.d/remote. This is needed for /bin/login's '-h'...

[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-115.2.0-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mor...

[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-2.53.17-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] libarchive

New libarchive 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/libarchive-3.4.2-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update includes security fixes in the RAR5 reader. Security fix Where ...

[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] libplist

New libplist 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/libplist-2.0.0-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes several security issues. For more information, see:...

[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-45.2.0-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements...

[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-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-38.6.0-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-38.6.0esr-i486-1slack14.1.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 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-38.4.0-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-38.2.1esr-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-38.1.1esr-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] pidgin

New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/pidgin-2.10.11-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains login fixes for MSN and some XMPP servers. Where to find the new...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.1 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-31.2.0-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information,...

[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-24.4.0-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mor...

[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-24.2.0-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-17.0.3-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-17.0-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/seamonkey-solibs-2.14-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. patches/packages/seamonkey-2.14-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-16.0-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-3.1.11-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and...

[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-3.6.11-i686-1.txz: Upgraded. This fixes some security issues. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-3.6.7-i686-1.txz: Upgraded. This fixes some security issues. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 12.2, 13.0, and -current to fix security issues. The Firefox 3.0.16 package may also be used with Slackware 11.0 or newer. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla website:...

mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 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 site: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird20.html Here are the details from the...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla site: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird20.html Here are the details from the Slackwar...

[slackware-security] vim

New vim packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues. More details about this issue may be found here: http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim.html Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/vim-7.1.330-i486-1slack12.1.tgz:...

[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] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix security issues. For more information, see: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlfirefox Here are the details from the Slackware 12.0 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] glibc-zoneinfo

New glibc-zoneinfo packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, and 12.0 to update the timezone tables to the latest versions. If you've noticed your clock has wandered off, these packages should fix the problem. This isn't really a "security issue" or is a minor on...

[slackware-security] firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 11.0 and 12.0 to fix security issues. Note that Firefox 1.5.x has reached its EOL end of life and is no longer being updated by mozilla.com. Users of Firefox 1.5.x are encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 2.x. Since we use the official Firefox...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.2, and 11.0 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog: xap/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.10-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to firefox-1.5.0.10. This upgrade fixes several possible security bugs. For more information,...

emacs movemail POP utility

New emacs packages are available for Slackware 10.1 and -current to a security issue with the movemail utility for retrieving mail from a POP mail server. If used to connect to a malicious POP server, it is possible for the server to cause the execution of arbitrary code as the user running emacs...

[slackware-security] getmail

New getmail packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0 and -current to fix a security issue. If getmail is used as root to deliver to user owned files or directories, it can be made to overwrite system files. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposur...

[slackware-security] xine-lib

New xine-lib packages are available for Slackware 10.0 and -current to fix security issues. For more details, see: http://www.xinehq.de/index.php/security/XSA-2004-4 http://www.xinehq.de/index.php/security/XSA-2004-5 Here are the details from the Slackware 10.0 ChangeLog:...

quotacheck security fix in rc.M

An upgraded sysvinit package is available which fixes a problem with the use of quotacheck in /etc/rc.d/rc.M. The original version of rc.M calls quotacheck like this: echo "Checking filesystem quotas: /sbin/quotacheck -avugM" /sbin/quotacheck -avugM The 'M' option is wrong. This causes the...