[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] samba

New samba 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/samba-4.1.9-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues, including a flaw in Samba's internal DNS...

[slackware-security] httpd

New httpd packages are available for Slackware 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/httpd-2.2.17-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. This fixes some denial of service bugs in the bundled libraries. O...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and 13.0 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/samba-3.2.15-i486-2slack13.0.txz: Rebuilt. Patched a buffer overflow in smbd that allows remote...

apr-util

New apr-util and apr packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. The issues are with apr-util, but older Slackware releases will require a new version of the apr package as well. More details about the issues may be found in the Common...

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...

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 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] gnutls

New gnutls 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/gnutls-3.8.3-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes two medium severity security issues: Fix more timing side-channel inside...

[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] 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-8.1.0-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: more POST-after-PUT confusion. IDN...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba 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/samba-4.15.11-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes the following security issue: There is a limited write heap buffer...

[slackware-security] Slackware 14.2 kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-4.4.301/: Upgraded. These updates fix various bugs and security issues, including the recently announced i915 issue that could lead to...

[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-3.6.7-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixes security issues: libgnutls, gnutls tools: Every gnutlsfree will automatically set th...

[slackware-security] libtiff

New libtiff 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/libtiff-4.0.10-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes some denial of service security issues. For more information, see:...

[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-5.6.38-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. One security bug has been fixed in this release: Apache2: XSS due to the header...

[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-5.6.32-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Several security bugs were fixed in this release: Out of bounds read in...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba 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/samba-4.4.8-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes security issues: CVE-2016-2123 Samba NDR Parsing ndrpulldnspname Heap-bas...

[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-5.6.26-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes bugs and security issues. For more information, see:...

[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-5.4.34-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues. 68044 Integer overflow in unserialize 32-bit...

[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-1.0.1i-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes several security issues: Double Free when...

[slackware-security] cups

New cups packages are available for Slackware 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/cups-1.4.5-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed memory corruption bugs that could lead to a denial of service o...

[slackware-security] xpdf

New xpdf packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 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/xpdf-3.02pl5-i486-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues that...

[slackware-security] libxml2

New libxml2 packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues including a denial or service or the possible execution of arbitrary code if untrusted XML is processed. More details about the issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilitie...

[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] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues. Note that PHP5 is not the default PHP for Slackware 10.2 or 11.0 those use PHP4, so if your PHP code is not ready for PHP5, don't upgrade until it is or you'll by definition run into problems...

[slackware-security] mysql

New mysql packages are available for Slackware 10.2 to fix security issues and other bugs. For complete details about the many fixes addressed by this release, you can find MySQL's news article about the MySQL 4.1.21 Community Edition release here:...

[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-115.9.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. 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-115.4.1-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For mor...

[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...

[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] vim

New vim 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/vim-9.0.1034-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes various security issues such as a heap-based buffer overflow and use after...

[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-7.4.32-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues: phar wrapper: DOS when using quine gzip file. Don't...

[slackware-security] zlib

New zlib 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/zlib-1.2.12-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes memory corruption when deflating i.e., when compressing...

[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-60.7.1esr-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains a security fix and improvements. The patched...

[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-9.10.8-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Fixed a bug where extraordinarily large zone...

[slackware-security] git

New git 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/git-2.14.4-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Submodule "names" come from...

[slackware-security] irssi

New irssi 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/irssi-1.0.7-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] rsync

New rsync 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/rsync-3.1.3-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes two security issues: Fixed a buffer overru...

[slackware-security] bash

New bash packages are available for Slackware 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and 14.2 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bash-4.3.048-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes two security issues found in bash before 4.4: The expansio...

[slackware-security] Slackware 14.0 kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.0 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-3.2.90/: Upgraded. This kernel fixes security issues including "Stack Clash". The issues may result in denial-of-service conditions or may...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba 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/samba-4.2.11-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes the security issues known as "badlock" or "sadlock", which may all...

[slackware-security] dhcp

New dhcp packages are available for Slackware 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/dhcp-4.2.4P1-i486-1slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. This fixes memory leaks, denial of service vulnerabilities, and...

[slackware-security] libpng

New libpng 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, 13.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libpng-1.4.3-x8664-1slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. Upgraded to libpng-1.2.44...

pidgin

New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 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-2009-2694 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2 ChangeLog...

[slackware-security] libpng

New libpng 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 security issues. More details about these issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-5266...

slackware-current security updates

This advisory summarizes recent security fixes in Slackware -current. Usually security advisories are not issued on problems that exist only within the test version of Slackware slackware-current, but since it's so close to being released as Slackware 10.2, and since there have been several...

PHP

New PHP packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issue with the PEAR XMLRPC class that allows a remote attacker to run arbitrary PHP code. Sites that make use of this PHP library should upgrade to the new PHP package right away, or may instead...

[slackware-security] Qt

New Qt packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, and -current to fix security issues. Bugs in the routines that handle PNG, BMP, GIF, and JPEG images may allow an attacker to cause unauthorized code to execute when a specially crafted image file is processed. These flaws may also cause...

apache

New apache packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix security issues. These include a possible denial-of-service attack as well as the ability to possible pipe shell escapes through Apache's errorlog which could create an exploit if the error log is read in a termina...