[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-5.5.40-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] glibc

New glibc 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/glibc-2.17-i486-8slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes several security issues, and adds an extra security hardening patch from...

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...

kernel

New Linux kernel packages are available for Slackware 13.37 and 14.0 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-3.2.45/: Upgraded. Upgraded to new kernels that fix CVE-2013-2094, a bug that can allow local users to gain a root shell. Be...

[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...

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...

kernel

New Linux kernel packages are available for Slackware 12.2 and -current to address a security issue. A kernel bug discovered by Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes of the Google Security Team could allow a local user to fill memory page zero with arbitrary code and then use the kernel sendpage...

[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] 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] 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] openssh

New openssh 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/openssh-9.3p2-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: ssh-agent1 in OpenSSH between and 5.5 and 9.3p1...

[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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] wpa_supplicant

New wpasupplicant 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/wpasupplicant-2.6-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update includes patches to mitigate the WPA2 protocol issues...

[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-4.2.8p7-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release patches several low and medium severity security issues...

[slackware-security] qt

New qt 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/qt-4.8.6-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed issues with BMP, ICO, and GIF handling that could lead to a denial of service or 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-5.4.29-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues, including a possible deni...

[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...

[slackware-security] httpd

New httpd packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/httpd-2.4.6-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update addresses two security issues: SECURITY:...

[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] net-snmp

New net-snmp packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 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-2008-0960 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2008-2292 Here are the details...

PHP

New PHP packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, and -current to fix security issues memorylimit handling and a problem in the striptags function. Sites using PHP should upgrade. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database:...

[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] 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-115.4.1-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mor...

[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] 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] poppler

New poppler 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/poppler-21.12.0-i586-2slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. PATCH JBIG2Stream: Fix crash on broken file. 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] 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] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox 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/mozilla-firefox-60.2.2esr-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[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...

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] pcre

New pcre packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix a security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2008-2371 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog:...

[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] 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] 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] nghttp2

New nghttp2 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/nghttp2-1.57.0-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release has a fix to mitigate the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset vulnerability. For more...

[slackware-security] libXpm

New libXpm 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/libXpm-3.5.17-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: libXpm: out of bounds read in...