[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 Note that Firefox 1.5.x has reached its EOL end of life and is no longer being updated by mozilla.com.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] libwpd

New libwpd packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix security issues. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-002 Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog:...

fetchmail

New fetchmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues. Connecting to a malicious or compromised POP3 server may overflow fetchmail's stack causing a crash or the execution of arbitrary code. For more information about this issue, see:...

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...

new mod_ssl packages

New modssl packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0 and -current to fix a security issue. A format string vulnerability in modproxy hook functions could allow an attacker to run code as the modssl user. Sites using modssl should upgrade be sure to back up your existing key files...

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...

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...

SSA-2002-1121054101

...

aaa_base not vulnerable

...

Emacs 20.6 updated updates

...

[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-0.11.5-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Stack buffer overflow in SFTP server longname...

[slackware-security] p11-kit

New p11-kit 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/p11-kit-0.26.4-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: server: fixed stack exhaustion via unbounded...

[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-140.10.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For...

[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-i586-19slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes security issues: XKB Integer Underflow in XkbSetCompatMap. X...

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

[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] 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-140.7.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For...

[slackware-security] libxslt

New libxslt 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/libxslt-1.1.44-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update addresses some security issues: CVE-2025-9714 Fix: Was a false positive,...

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

[slackware-security] libtasn1

New libtasn1 packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: l/libtasn1-4.20.0-x8664-1.txz: Upgraded. Fix potential DoS in handling of numerous SEQUENCE OF or SET OF elements. For more information, see:...

[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] dovecot

New dovecot 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/dovecot-2.3.21.1-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: A large number of address headers in email resulte...

[slackware-security] libksba

New libksba packages are available for Slackware 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libksba-1.6.3-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fix another integer overflow in the CRL's signature parser. Security fix Where t...

[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...

[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-45.0-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 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-3.1.10-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey 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/seamonkey-2.0.5-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes some more security vulnerabilities. For more...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.0 and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla website: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox36.html Here are the details from the Slackware 13.0 ChangeLog:...

mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 12.2, and -current 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:...

mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 12.2 and -current 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:...

mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 12.2 and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla website: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] firefox-seamonkey-thunderbird

New mozilla-firefox and seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix security issues. New thunderbird packages are are available for Slackware 10.2 and 11.0 to fix security issues. More details about this issue may be found at these links:...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

A new seamonkey package is available for Slackware 11.0 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog: xap/seamonkey-1.0.8-i486-1slack11.0.tgz: Upgraded to seamonkey-1.0.8. This upgrade fixes several possible security bugs. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird 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-thunderbird-1.5.0.10-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to thunderbird-1.5.0.10. This upgrade fixes several possible security bugs. For more...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

A new seamonkey package is available for Slackware 11.0 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/seamonkey-1.0.7-i486-1slack11.0.tgz: Upgraded to seamonkey-1.0.7. This upgrade fixes several possible security bugs. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] Samba 2.0.23 repackaged

New Samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current. In Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2, Samba was evidently picking up the libdm.so.0 library causing a Samba package issued primarily as a security patch to suddenly require a library that would only be present on the...

[slackware-security] firefox

New Firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlfirefox1.5.0.2 Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog:...

[repost] [slackware-security] Thunderbird email client

New Thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix a security issue: MFSA 2005-59 Command-line handling on Linux allows shell execution More details about this issue may be found on the Mozilla web site:...

inetd DoS patched

Upgraded inetd packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0 and - -current. These fix a previously hard-coded limit of 256 connections-per-minute, after which the given service is disabled for ten minutes. An attacker could use a quick burst of connections every ten minutes to effectively disabl...

GnuPG key validation fix

A key validation bug which results in all user IDs on a given key being treated with the validity of the most-valid user ID on that key has been fixed with the release of GnuPG 1.2.2. We recommend sites using GnuPG upgrade to this new package. For detailed information about the problem, see this...

[slackware-security] libXfont2

New libXfont2 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/libXfont2-2.0.9-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Font Server Client encoding Out-Of-Bounds...

[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-5.80-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Fixed an out-of-bounds memory access triggered by...

[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-140.10.1esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[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-1.3.9a-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fix for an SQL injection that may lead to authentication bypass, privilege escalation,...

[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] 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-1.1.1zg-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Apply patch to fix the following security issues: Potential Use-after-free in DANE...

[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...