[slackware-security] wavpack

New wavpack packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/wavpack-5.4.0-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. WavPack 5.4.0 fixes an issue where a specially crafted WAV file could caus...

[slackware-security] mariadb

New mariadb 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/mariadb-5.5.68-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes potential denial-of-service vulnerabilities. For more information, se...

[slackware-security] bash

New bash packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bash-4.2.050-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Another bash update. Here's some information included with the...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/php-5.4.32-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues. For more information, see...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba 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/samba-4.18.8-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This is a security release in order to address the following defects: Unsanitized pipe name...

[slackware-security] polkit

New polkit packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/polkit-0.113-i586-4slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. PATCH pkexec: local privilege escalation. Thanks to Qualys Research Labs for...

[slackware-security] curl

New curl packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/curl-7.76.0-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing. Exposure o...

[slackware-security] libvorbis

New libvorbis packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libvorbis-1.3.6-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes security issues. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] ntp

New ntp packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/ntp-4.2.8p10-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. In addition to bug fixes and enhancements, this release fixes...

[slackware-security] openssl

New openssl 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/openssl-1.0.1r-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes the following security issue: SSLv2 doesn't block disabled...

[slackware-security] openssl

New openssl packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssl-0.9.8q-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. This OpenSSL update contains some security related...

[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-91.9.1esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] nettle

New nettle packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: This update fixes a security issue: A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was found in the way nettle handles endian conversio...

[slackware-security] gd

New gd packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: This update fixes two security issues: Double-free in gdImagePngPtr denial of service. Buffer over-read into uninitialized memory information leak. For mor...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/php-5.6.34-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a stack buffer overflow vulnerability. For more information, se...

[slackware-security] php

New php 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/php-5.6.23-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes bugs and security issues. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] ntp

New ntp packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/ntp-4.2.8p6-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. In addition to bug fixes and enhancements, this release fixes severa...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/php-5.3.8-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. Security fixes vs. 5.3.6 5.3.7 was not usable: Updated...

[slackware-security] 64-bit kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware x8664 13.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware64 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-2.6.33.4-2/kernel-firmware-2.6.33.4-noarch-2.txz: Rebuilt...

[slackware-security] httpd

New httpd packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, and -current to fix security issues. modssl: A partial fix for the TLS renegotiation prefix injection attack by rejecting any client-initiated renegotiations. modproxyajp: Respond with HTTPBADREQUEST when the body is not sent...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 12.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.12-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to thunderbird-2.0.0.12. This update fixes the following...

[slackware-security] xpdf

New xpdf packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, and 12.0 to fix an integer overflow. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-3387 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.0...

[slackware-security] openssh

New openssh packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues. More details about these issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-4924 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-5051...

Kernel security update

New kernels are available for Slackware 9.1 and -current to fix a bounds-checking problem in the kernel's mremap call which could be used by a local attacker to gain root privileges. Please note that this is not the same issue as CAN-2003-0985 which was fixed in early January. The kernels in...

[slackware-security] proftpd

New proftpd packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/proftpd-1.3.8b-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: modsftp: implemented mitigation...

[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-102.10.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] Slackware 15.0 bind

New bind packages are available for Slackware 15.0, since the previous patch mistakenly moved to a newer BIND branch. These packages do not fix any security issues that weren't already fixed in the bind-9.18.1 packages, which have been moved into /testing, but the BIND 9.16 LTS version is the...

[slackware-security] kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.0 and 14.2 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-4.4.111/: Upgraded. This kernel includes mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 and Meltdown speculative side channel attacks. Be sur...

[slackware-security] httpd

New httpd packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/httpd-2.4.27-i586-2slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. This update patches a security issue "Optionsbleed" with th...

bind

New bind packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, and -current to fix a security issue. More details about this issue may be found here: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-4022 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/418861 Here are the details from...

[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/python3-3.9.16-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: gh-98739: Updated bundled libexpat to 2.5.0 to fix...

[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-91.8.0-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] libpng

New libpng 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/libpng-1.6.37-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Fixed a use-after-free vulnerability CVE-2019-7317 in...

[slackware-security] ntp

New ntp packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/ntp-4.2.8p12-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release improves on one security fix in ntpd: LOW/MEDIUM: Sec 3012: Sybil...

[slackware-security] ntp

New ntp packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/ntp-4.2.8p11-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release addresses five security issues in ntpd: LOW/MEDIUM: Sec 3012 /...

[slackware-security] openssl

New openssl 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/openssl-1.0.2m-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: There is a carry propagating bug in the x64...

[slackware-security] kernel

New kernel 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/linux-4.4.38/: Upgraded. This kernel fixes a security issue with a race condition in net/packet/afpacket.c that can be exploited to...

[slackware-security] openssl

New openssl packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssl-1.0.2i-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes denial-of-service and other security issues. For more...

[slackware-security] php

New php 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/php-5.4.43-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes some bugs and security issues. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] php5

New php5 packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix security issues. PHP5 was considered a test package in Slackware 10.2, and an "extra" package in Slackware 11.0. If you are currently running PHP4 you may wish to stick with that, as upgrading to PHP5 will probably...

[slackware-security] x11

New x11 packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and 11.0. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-6101 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-6102 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-6103 Here are the details...

[slackware-security] httpd

New httpd packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/httpd-2.4.55-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and the following security issues: modproxy allow...

[slackware-security] openssl

New openssl 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/openssl-1.0.2n-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Read/write after SSL object in error state...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/php-5.6.31-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes bugs and security issues. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] openssl

New openssl packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssl-1.0.1s-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes the following security issues: Cross-protoc...

[slackware-security] ntp

New ntp packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/ntp-4.2.8p4-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. In addition to bug fixes and enhancements, this release fixes severa...

[slackware-security] xorg-server

New xorg-server 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/xorg-server-1.20.14-i586-7slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. PATCH Xi: fix potential use-after-free in DeepCopyPointerClasses. Also merged...

[slackware-security] xz

New xz packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/xz-5.2.5-i586-4slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a security issue: xzgrep applied to a crafted file name with...

[slackware-security] polkit

New polkit 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/polkit-0.120-i586-3slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Patched to fix a security issue where an unprivileged user could cause a denial of service...

[slackware-security] expat

New expat packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/expat-2.4.3-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fix issues with left shifts by =29 places resulting in: a realloc acting as fre...