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] Mozilla

New Mozilla 1.7.3 packages are available for Slackware 10.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 10.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-1.7.3-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to mozilla-1.7.3. The Mozilla page says this fixes some "minor security holes". It also brea...

alternate samba package for Slackware 10.0

It was pointed out that the new Samba packages for Slackware 10.0 and -current have a dependency on libattr.so that wasn't in the previous packages. Since it's not the intent to introduce new requirements in security patches especially for stable versions, an alternate version of the samba packag...

xine security update

New xine packages are available for Slackware 9.1 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 9.1 ChangeLog: Tue Apr 20 19:01:58 PDT 2004 patches/packages/xine-lib-1rc3c-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to xine-lib-1-rc3c. This release fixes a security problem where opening a...

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...

[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...

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...

EPIC4 security fixes

New EPIC4 packages are available to fix security problems found by Timo Sirainen. EPIC4 is an IRC Internet Relay Chat client. Under certain circumstances, a malicious IRC server could cause EPIC4 to crash, or possibly to run arbitrary code as the user running EPIC4. All sites running EPIC4 are...

New DHCP packages available

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New Samba package available

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: 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...

libsafe added to -current

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CA-99-13: minimal fix for Slackware 3.5 through 4.0

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wu.ftpd buffer overflow

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[slackware-security] ca-certificates

New ca-certificates 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/ca-certificates-20261020-noarch-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update provides the latest CA certificates to check for the...

[slackware-security] c-ares

New c-ares 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/c-ares-1.34.9-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Memory corruption when an application cancels its...

[slackware-security] stunnel

New stunnel 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/stunnel-5.82-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Fixed truncation and out-of-bounds reads when inheriti...

[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-140.15.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] libxml2

New libxml2 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/libxml2-2.11.9-i586-10slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes bugs and security issues: xmlregexp: Prevent out-of-bounds read in NX...

[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-1.6.56-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Use-after-free via pointer aliasing in pngsettRNS and...

[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] wget2

New wget2 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/wget2-2.2.1-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and the following security issues: Fix file overwrite issue with...

[slackware-security] libpng

New libpng 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/libpng-1.6.52-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a high severity security issue: Out-of-bounds read in...

[slackware-security] patch

New patch packages are available for Slackware 15.0 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/patch-2.8-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. We patched CVE-2018-1000156 seven years ago arguably the most severe of these flaws, but several more CVEs...

[slackware-security] libxml2

New libxml2 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/libxml2-2.11.9-i586-7slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a security issue: PATCH regexp: Avoid integer overflow and OOB array...

[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-140.2.0esr-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-140.1.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] libxml2

New libxml2 packages are available for Slackware 15.0 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libxml2-2.11.9-i586-6slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Recompiled with the missing security patches. Thanks to bigbadaboum for spotting this. For more...

[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-140.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements, and mov...

[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-128.10.2esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For...

[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] 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 14.2 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/seamonkey-2.53.4-i686-1slack14.2.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 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...

[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-68.9.0esr-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[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-2.53.1-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] openjpeg

New openjpeg 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/openjpeg-2.3.1-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Includes many bug fixes including security fixes. Security fix Where to find the new...

[slackware-security] wget

New wget 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/wget-1.20.2-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed an unspecified buffer overflow vulnerability. Security fix Where to find the new...

SSA-2018-0906074602

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-60.0-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information,...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-52.9.0-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[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-2.48-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] vim

New vim packages are available for Slackware 14.0 and 14.1 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/vim-7.4.399-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. In Vim 7.3+ but prior to 7.4.399, blowfish encryption is weak. Upgrade to Vim 7.4.399 to address...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox 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-firefox-45.8.0esr-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mo...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox 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-firefox-45.4.0esr-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mo...

[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-45.3.0-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. F...

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-45.1.0-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-38.6.1esr-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-38.5.0-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-2.38-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, se...