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-19.0-i486-1slack14.0.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-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-16.0.1-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security vulnerability that could allow a...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, and 12.1 to fix security issues. For more information, see: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey11.html Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog:...

mozilla-firefox (Slackware 12.2)

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...

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] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 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/firefox20.html Or, for Slackware -current using Firefox 3.0.x:...

[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] gd

GD is an open source code library for the dynamic creation of images. New gd packages are available for Slackware 11.0, and -current to fix possible security issues. Please see: http://www.libgd.org/ReleaseNote020035 for complete release notes. "Upgrading is strongly recommended." Here are the...

[fixed URLs] firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey

The original advisory for this issue contained incorrect URLs for the Slackware 11.0 patches. Sorry about that! The URLs for the 10.2 packages were correct and the Firefox/Thunderbird links given for 11.0 would have been just fine anyway since 10.2 and 11.0 are using the same packages for those...

[slackware-security] firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey

New Firefox and Thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. In addition, a new Seamonkey package is available for Slackware -current to fix similar issues. More details about the issues may be found here:...

[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 which could allow an attacker to crash gnupg and possibly overwrite memory which could lead to an integer overflow. Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] elm mailer

New Elm packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. A buffer overflow in the parsing of the Expires header could allow arbitrary code to be executed as the user running Elm. Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 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...

infozip

New infozip zip/unzip packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues. - From the www.info-zip.org site: Zip 2.3 and presumably all previous versions have a buffer- overrun vulnerability relating to deep directory paths that could potentially le...

[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:...

INN security update

INN InterNetNews is used to run a news NNTP server. New INN packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, and -current. These have been upgraded to inn-2.4.1 to fix a potentially exploitable buffer overflow. All sites running INN should upgrade. Here are the details from the Slackware 9.1...

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...

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...

glibc XDR overflow fix

An integer overflow in the xdrmemgetbytes function found in the glibc library has been fixed. This could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code by exploiting RPC service that use xdrmemgetbytes. None of the default RPC services provided by Slackware appear to use this function, but...

Mutt buffer overflow in IMAP support

The mutt mail client packages in Slackware 8.1 and 9.0 have been upgraded to mutt-1.4.1i to fix a security problem discovered by Core Security Technologies. This issue may allow a remote attacker controlling a malicious IMAP server to execute code on your machine as the user running mutt if you...

Sendmail buffer overflow fixed

The sendmail packages in Slackware 8.1 and -current have been patched to fix a security problem. All sites running sendmail should upgrade. More information on the problem can be found here: http://www.sendmail.org/8.12.8.html Here are the details from the Slackware 8.1 ChangeLog: Mon Mar 3...

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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...

Apache 1.3.14 available

Several security problems have been found in the Apache web server software. It is recommended that all users of Apache upgrade to the latest stable release to fix these problems. Apache is included in our N software series in the apache.tgz package. A new apache.tgz package including Apache 1.3....

aaa_base not vulnerable

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[slackware-security] wpa_supplicant

New wpasupplicant 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/wpasupplicant-2.12-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed various security issues. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] tigervnc

New tigervnc packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: extra/tigervnc/tigervnc-1.16.2-i586-4slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Recompiled against xorg-server-1.20.14, including patches for security issues: glamor Fo...

[slackware-security] openssl

New openssl 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/openssl-1.1.1zh-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Apply patch to fix the following security issues: Heap Buffer Over-read in ASN.1 Conte...

[slackware-security] proftpd

New proftpd 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/proftpd-1.3.9b-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Additional fixes for SQL injection, notably for...

[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-3.8.7-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Libarchive 3.8.7 is a security and bugfix release. Notable fixes: CAB: fix NULL...

[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-140.9.1esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For...

[slackware-security] xz

New xz 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/xz-5.2.13-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Fix a buffer overflow in lzmaindexappend. Fix invalid memory...

[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-140.9.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For...

[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-2.7.4-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Function XMLExternalEntityParserCreate failed to copy the...

[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-9.18.41-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: DNSSEC validation fails if matching but invalid DNSKEY is...

[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-140.4.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[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-2.4.65-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes bugs and the following security issues: HTTP/2 DoS by Memory Increase...

[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-i586-16slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes security issues: Out-of-bounds access in X Rendering extensi...

[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-128.9.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For...

[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] git

New git 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/git-2.46.3-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release lets Git refuse to accept URLs that contain control sequences. For more informatio...

[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] 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-2.53.19-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

[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-115.2.1esr-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 14.2 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-68.11.0esr-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...