[slackware-security] glibc

New glibc packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/glibc-2.11.1-i486-4slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt. Patched "dynamic linker expands $ORIGIN in setuid library search...

[slackware-security] bzip2

New bzip2 packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix a DoS issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2008-1372 Here are the details from the...

[slackware-security] libtiff

New libtiff packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues. These issues could be used to crash programs linked to libtiff or possibly to execute code as the program's user. Thanks to Tavis Ormandy and the Google Security Team. More details...

[slackware-security] kernel

New kernel 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/linux-5.15.209/kernel-generic-5.15.209-i586-1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: rxrpc: Fix missing validation of ticke...

[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-115.9.0-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mor...

[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-9.16.48-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues: Specific DNS answers could cause a...

[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-2.6.0-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Fix quadratic runtime issues with big tokens that can cau...

[slackware-security] curl

New curl 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/curl-8.0.1-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: SSH connection too eager reuse still. HS...

[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] mariadb

New mariadb 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/mariadb-10.5.17-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and several security issues. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] net-snmp

New net-snmp 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/net-snmp-5.9.3-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: A buffer overflow in the handling of the INDEX of...

[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-91.6.1esr-i686-1slack15.0.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-68.7.0esr-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-68.2.0esr-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] tcpdump

New libpcap and tcpdump 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/libpcap-1.9.1-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update is required for the new version of tcpdump...

[slackware-security] file

New file 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/file-5.34-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed a denial of service crash when processing a crafted ELF file. For more...

[slackware-security] openssh

New openssh packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and 14.2 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssh-7.4p1-i586-2slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. sftp-server: in read-only mode, sftp-server was incorrectly...

[slackware-security] ruby

New ruby 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/ruby-2.2.8-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release includes several security fixes. 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-1.0.1m-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixes several bugs and security issues: o Segmentation fault ...

[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-1.0.1k-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes several security issues: DTLS segmentation...

[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-5.4.29-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues, including a possible deni...

kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.1 64-bit to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware64 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-3.10.17-2/: These are new kernels that fix CVE-2014-0038, a bug that can allow local users to gain a root shell. Be sure to reinsta...

[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 security issues. The apr-util package has also been updated to the latest version. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/apr-util-1.4.1-i486-1slack13.37.txz:...

[slackware-security] subversion

New subversion packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/subversion-1.6.16-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed a remotely triggerable NULL-pointer dereference i...

[slackware-security] apache+mod_ssl

New apache packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Apache has been upgraded to version 1.3.33 which fixes a buffer overflow which may allow local users to execute arbitrary code as the apache user. The modssl package has also been upgraded t...

[slackware-security] kernel

New kernel 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/linux-5.15.204/kernel-generic-5.15.204-i586-1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a critical security issue: An out-of-bounds write in t...

[slackware-security] ghostscript

New ghostscript 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/ghostscript-9.55.0-i586-2slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Fixes security issues: A vulnerability was identified in the way...

[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-115.2.2-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains a security fix for a critical heap...

[slackware-security] Slackware 15.0 kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 15.0 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-5.15.80/: Upgraded. These updates fix various bugs and security issues. Be sure to upgrade your initrd after upgrading the kernel packages. I...

[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: patches/packages/php-7.4.33-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues: GD: OOB read due to insufficient input validation i...

[slackware-security] curl

New curl 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/curl-7.83.0-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: OAUTH2 bearer bypass in connection...

[slackware-security] git

New git 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/git-2.35.3-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue where a Git worktree created by another...

[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-91.6.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind 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/bind-9.11.25-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs, including a denial-of-service security issue: After a...

[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-2.53.5-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] freetype

New freetype 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/freetype-2.6.3-i586-3slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. Fix heap buffer overflow in embedded PNG bitmap handling. For more...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind 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/bind-9.11.19-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: A malicious actor who intentionally exploits...

[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-68.6.0esr-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[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-60.6.1-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] gnutls

New gnutls 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/gnutls-3.6.5-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Bleichenbacher-like side channel leakage in PKCS1 1.5...

[slackware-security] libwmf

New libwmf 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/libwmf-0.2.8.4-i586-7slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. Patched denial of service and possible execution of...

[slackware-security] Slackware 14.2 kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to mitigate the speculative side channel attack known as Spectre variant 2. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-4.4.115/: Upgraded. This kernel includes full retpoline mitigation for the Spectre varian...

[slackware-security] python

New python 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/python-2.7.14-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Updated to the latest 2.7.x release. This fixes some security issues relate...

[slackware-security] proftpd

New proftpd 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/proftpd-1.3.4e-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Patched an issue where modcopy allowed unauthenticated copyi...

[slackware-security] libjpeg

New libjpeg 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/libjpeg-v8a-i486-2slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. Fix use of uninitialized memory when decoding images with missin...

php

New php packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 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-2009-3291 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-3292...

bitchx EOLed in Slackware

This is a notice that bitchx, an IRC client based on ircii-EPIC4, has been removed from Slackware -current and will not be part of future Slackware releases. Security issues and bugs have been reported, but upstream work seems to have stalled leaving bitchx in a state where there are known proble...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues, as well as make improvements and fix bugs. Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/php-5.2.7-i486-1slack12.1.tgz: Upgraded to php-5.2.7. In addition to improvements and b...

[slackware-security] fetchmail

New fetchmail 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 this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2005-3088 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2005-4348...

[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-9.16.44-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and a security issue: Limit the amount of recursion that can be...