[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:...

Samba buffer overflow fixed

The samba packages in Slackware 8.1 and -current have been patched to fix a security problem. All sites running samba should upgrade. Here are the details from the Slackware 8.1 ChangeLog: Sat Mar 15 13:49:04 PST 2003 patches/packages/samba-2.2.8-i386-1.tgz: Upgraded to Samba 2.2.8. From the Samb...

Pine update fixes insecure URL-handling

Pine 4.44 packages are now available to fix a problem with insecure URL handling. Here's the information from the Slackware 8.0 ChangeLog: Sat Jan 12 13:05:33 PST 2002 patches/packages/pine.tgz: Fix a security problem with pine by upgrading to pine4.44. More details from the Pine Announcement Lis...

: glibc 2.1.3 vulnerabilities patched

Three locale-related vulnerabilities with glibc 2.1.3 were recently reported on BugTraq. These vulnerabilities could allow local users to gain root access. Users of Slackware 7.0, 7.1, and -current are strongly urged to upgrade to the new glibc packages in the -current branch...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: extra/php82/php82-8.2.33-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: GD: Upgrade libgd. PGSQL: Fixed GHSA-7qpv-r5mr-78m4 SQL injecti...

[slackware-security] proftpd

New proftpd 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/proftpd-1.3.9c-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues: ExecEnviron values not passed due to...

[slackware-security] mutt

New mutt 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/mutt-2.4.1-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Prevent unsigned int overflow in imapcmdstep buffer growt...

[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-140.11.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[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] 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-140.8.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For...

[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] 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-8.14.0-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: No QUIC certificate pinning with wolfSSL. QUIC certificate...

[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-2.6.4-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and a security issue: Fix crash within function XMLResumeParser from ...

[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] 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-102.12.0-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mo...

[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] vim

New vim 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/vim-9.0.0623-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed use-after-free and stack-based buffer overflow. Thanks to marav for the heads-up. For...

[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] seamonkey

New seamonkey 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/seamonkey-2.53.2-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] gnutls

New gnutls 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/gnutls-3.6.13-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: libgnutls: Fix a DTLS-protocol regression caused by...

[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-68.4.0esr-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 14.1 to fix security and stability issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-45.9.0esr-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. Also,...

[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] seamonkey

New seamonkey 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/seamonkey-2.39-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

[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] llvm

New llvm 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/llvm-3.3-i486-3slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. The LLVM package included binaries with an rpath pointing to the build location in /tmp...

[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-2.22-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, se...

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-20.0-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[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] 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:...

SSA-2010-0306193619

A new mozilla-firefox package is available for Slackware 12.2 to fix security issues. The package may also be used with Slackware 11.0 or newer. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla website: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html Here are the...

kernel [updated]

This is a followup to the SSA:2009-230-01 advisory noting some errata. The generic SMP kernel update for Slackware 12.2 was built using the .config for a huge kernel, not a generic one. The kernel previously published as kernel-generic-smp and in the gemsmp.s directory works and is secure, but is...

mozilla-firefox

A new mozilla-firefox package is available for Slackware 12.2 to fix security issues. The updated packages may also be used with Slackware 11.0 or newer. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla website: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-42.html...

[slackware-security] 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...

[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] 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] zoo archiver overflow

New bin packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix a security issue with the zoo archive program. A non-security- related upgrade to the newest version of "eject" was also done. Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bin-10.2-i486-210.2.tgz:...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix minor security issues. More details about these issues may be found on the PHP website: http://www.php.net/release442.php Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/php-4.4.2-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded t...

Mozilla/Firefox

New Mozilla packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix various security issues and bugs. See the Mozilla site for a complete list of the issues patched: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlMozilla New versions of the mozilla-plugins symlink...

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] 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...

Slackware 9.0, libpng correction

In the previous advisory for libpng SSA:2004-222-01, the URL provided for the Slackware 9.0 patch mistakenly pointed to the old unpatched package. Slackware 9.0 users should follow the URL below for the new package:...

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...

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...

sudo upgrade fixes a potential vulnerability

New sudo packages are available to fix a security problem which may allow users to become root, or to execute arbitrary code as root. Here's the information from the Slackware 8.0 ChangeLog: ---------------------------- Thu Apr 25 12:00:50 PDT 2002 patches/packages/sudo.tgz: Upgraded to sudo-1.6....

mutt remote exploit patched

An exploitable overflow has been found in the address handling code of the mutt mail client version 1.2.5i supplied with Slackware 8.0. A new mutt-1.2.5.1 has been released which addresses this problem, and packages are now available for Slackware 8.0 and -current. We urge all Slackware users to...

klogd Kernel Logger vulnerability and fix

A string format / buffer overflow bug has been discovered in klogd, the kernel logging daemon. Please upgrade to the new sysklogd 1.4 package available on the Slackware FTP site. ========================================================================= sysklogd 1.4 AVAILABLE - a1/sysklogd.tgz...

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...