[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-24.6.0-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-24.2.0esr-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-17.0.2-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 13.37 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: This release 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 to fix accidental ABI breakage caused by httpd-2.2.18. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/httpd-2.2.19-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. Revert ABI breakage in...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.0 and 13.1 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-3.6.16-i686-1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes a security vulnerability by blacklisting several invalid HTTPS...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 13.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-3.0.7-i686-1.txz: Upgraded. This upgrade fixes some more security bugs. 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 security issues. More details about the issues may be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird20.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 may be found on the Mozilla web site: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey11.html Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] gnutls

New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, and -current to correctly fix the certificate chain verification issue that the upgrade to gnutls-2.6.1 attempted to fix. Without this upgrade, processing a certificate chain containing only one self-signed certificate may cause GnuTLS...

[slackware-security] firefox, seamonkey

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix security issues. New seamonkey updates are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, and -current to address similar issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 12.0 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

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

kdenetwork

New kdenetwork packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues. Overflows in libgadu used by kopete that can cause a denial of service or arbitrary code execution. More details about this vulnerability may be found here:...

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 Also updated is Firefox in Slackware...

xine-lib

New xine-lib packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues. The xine frontends have also been upgraded. For more details on the xine-lib security issues, see: http://xinehq.de/index.php/security/XSA-2004-8 Here are the details from the Slackware 10.1...

[slackware-security] GTK+ image loading flaws

New GTK+ version 2 packages are available for Slackware 10.0 and -current to fix issues in the image loader routines that can crash applications. Here are the details from the Slackware 10.0 ChangeLog: l/gtk+2-2.4.10-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gtk+-2.4.10. This fixes security issues in the image...

xine-lib update

New xine-lib packages are available for Slackware 9.1 and -current to fix a security issue where playing a specially crafted Real RTSP stream could run malicious code as the user playing the stream. More details about this issue may be found in this advisory:...

[slackware-security] rsync security update

Rsync is a file transfer client and server. A security problem which may lead to unauthorized machine access or code execution has been fixed by upgrading to rsync-2.5.7. This problem only affects machines running rsync in daemon mode, and is easier to exploit if the non-default option "use chroo...

OpenSSH Security Advisory

Upgraded OpenSSH packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0 and - -current. These fix a buffer management error found in versions of OpenSSH earlier than 3.7. The possibility exists that this error could allow a remote exploit, so we recommend all sites running OpenSSH upgrade to the new OpenS...

GDM security update

Upgraded gdm packages are available for Slackware 9.0 and -current. These fix a security issue where a local user may use GDM to read any file on the system. Here are the details from the Slackware 9.0 ChangeLog: Sun Aug 24 14:36:29 PDT 2003 patches/packages/gdm-2.4.1.6-i386-1.tgz: Upgraded to...

REVISED quotacheck security fix in rc.M

NOTE: The original advisory quotes a section of the Slackware ChangeLog which had inadvertently reversed the options to quotacheck. The correct option to use is 'm'. A corrected advisory follows: An upgraded sysvinit package is available which fixes a problem with the use of quotacheck in...

mod_ssl RSA blinding fixes

An upgrade for modssl to version 2.8.141.3.27 is now available. This version provides RSA blinding by default which prevents an extended timing analysis from revealing details of the secret key to an attacker. Note that this problem was already fixed within OpenSSL, so this is a "double fix". Wit...

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OpenSSH security problem fixed

New openssh packages are available to fix security problems. Here's the information from the Slackware 8.0 ChangeLog: ---------------------------- Thu Mar 7 12:00:18 PST 2002 patches/packages/openssh.tgz: Upgraded to openssh-3.1p1. This fixes a security problem in the openssh package. All sites...

rsync update fixes security problems

New rsync packages are available to fix a security problem. Here's the information from the Slackware 8.0 ChangeLog: Fri Jan 25 14:25:51 PST 2002 patches/packages/rsync.tgz: Fixed a security hole by upgrading to rsync-2.4.8pre1. This is the relevant information from the rsync NEWS file: SECURITY...

wu-ftpd advisory update

UPDATE: This announcement was first mailed out on 28-Sep-2000. It was later determined that incorrect 16-bit sums and 128-bit MD5 message digests were included in the announcement. The announcement below is identical to the one from yesterday, but it includes the correct verification data. We...

: xchat input validation bug fixed

An input validation bug was found to affect Slackware Linux 7.0, 7.1, and -current. The problem is described in detail at this site: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1601 Users of Slackware 7.0, 7.1, and -current are urged to upgraded to the xchat.tgz package available in the Slackware -current...

aaa_base not vulnerable

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libtermcap buffer overflow

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[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] net-tools

New net-tools 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/net-tools-201811030eebece-i586-4slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a security issue: interface.c: Stack-based Buffer Overfl...

[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-i586-20slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes security issues: Font Alias Stack-based Buffer Overflow. XSY...

[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-140.10.2esr-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: patches/packages/libarchive-3.8.6-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues: libarchive: fix incompatibility with...

[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/python3-3.9.25-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues. For details, see...

[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-140.7.2esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains a security fix: Heap buffer overflow ...

[slackware-security] lrzip

New lrzip 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/lrzip-0.660-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Address multiple potential security issues with crafted or corrupt archives. Security fix...

[slackware-security] libssh

New libssh 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/libssh-0.11.4-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: SCP Protocol Path Traversal in sshscppullrequest...

[slackware-security] libpng

New libpng 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/libpng-1.6.54-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Heap buffer over-read in the libpng simplified API...

[slackware-security] lcms2

New lcms2 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/lcms2-2.18-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Fix for 469 heap buffer overflow on convertutf16toutf32...

[slackware-security] httpd

New httpd 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/httpd-2.4.66-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes bugs and the following security issues: moduserdir+suexec bypass via...

[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-140.5.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] stunnel

New stunnel 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/stunnel-5.76-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Service-level multivalued options now override rather than append to global defaults,...

[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-3.8.2-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements: 7zip: Fix out of boundary...

[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/python3-3.9.24-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues. For details, see...

[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/php81/php81-8.1.33-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: PGSQL: Fixed pgsql extension does not check for errors during...

[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-128.10.1esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] ark

New ark 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/ark-21.12.1-i586-2slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. The ark archive tool in KDE was found to extract to absolute paths if they are present in the...

[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-128.5.0esr-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-128.5.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...