[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] 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] 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-5.6.33-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues, including: Potential infinite loop 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] mariadb / mysql

New mariadb or mysql 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/mariadb-10.0.27-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a critical vulnerability which can allow loca...

[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-5.6.17-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes bugs and security issues. IMPORTANT: READ BELOW ABOUT POTENTIALLY...

[slackware-security] dhcp

New dhcp 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/dhcp-4.3.3P1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a denial-of-service vulnerability. For more...

[slackware-security] mozilla-nss

New mozilla-nss 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/mozilla-nss-3.20.1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Upgraded to nss-3.20.1 and nspr-4.10.10. This release contains security...

[slackware-security] gdk-pixbuf2

New gdk-pixbuf2 packages are available for Slackware 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/gdk-pixbuf2-2.28.2-i486-2slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. Gustavo Grieco discovered a heap overflow in the processing of BM...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba packages are available for Slackware 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/samba-3.6.17-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes missing integer wrap protection in an EA list reading that...

[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] 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...

openssl

New openssl packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-0789 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-0591...

[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] 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 8.1 kernel security update

New kernels are available for Slackware 8.1 containing a backported fix from a bounds-checking problem in the kernel's mremap call which could be used by a local attacker to gain root privileges. This fix was previously issued for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, and -current SSA:2004-006-01. Sites running...

[slackware-security] sdl

New sdl 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/sdl-1.2.15-i586-13slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a heap overflow problem in video/SDLpixels.c in SDL. By crafting a...

[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-68.5.0-i686-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[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] samba

New samba 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/samba-4.4.12-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: All versions of Samba prior to 4.6.1,...

[slackware-security] libxml2

New libxml2 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/libxml2-2.9.4-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes bugs and security issues: Heap-based buffer underreads due to...

[slackware-security] cups

New cups 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/cups-1.5.4-i486-4slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. This release fixes a security issue: CWE-911: Improper Update of...

dhcp

New dhcp packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/dhcp-4.2.5P1-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update replaces the included BIND 9 code that the DHCP...

[slackware-security] 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, 13.1, and -current to fix security issues when DNSSEC is enabled which is not the default setting. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] gzip

New gzip packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix possible security issues. More details about the issues fixed may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2005-0758...

[slackware-security] mysql

New mysql packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. The MySQL package shipped with Slackware 10.2 may possibly leak sensitive information found in uninitialized memory to authenticated users. The MySQL package previously in Slackware -current also suffered fro...

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...

XFree86 security update

New XFree86 base packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current. These fix overflows which could possibly be exploited to gain unauthorized root access. All sites running XFree86 should upgrade to the new package. More details about these issues may be found in the Common...

[slackware-security] curl

New curl 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/curl-8.12.0-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes the following security issues: gzip integer overflow eventfd double close...

[slackware-security] libarchive

New libarchive 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/libarchive-3.7.3-i586-2slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Patched an out-of-bound error in the rar e8 filter that could allow for the...

[slackware-security] libuv

New libuv 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/libuv-1.48.0-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a server-side request forgery SSRF flaw. Thanks to alex2grad for the...

[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-2.4.56-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes two security issues: HTTP Response Smuggling...

[slackware-security] vim

New vim 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/vim-9.0.0594-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed stack-based buffer overflow. Thanks to marav for the heads-up. In addition, Mig21...

[slackware-security] curl

New curl 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/curl-7.85.0-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: control code in cookie denial of...

[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-7.4.30-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues: mysqlnd/pdo password buffer overflow. Uninitialized...

[slackware-security] util-linux

New util-linux 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/util-linux-2.37.4-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes a security issue in chsh1 and chfn8: By default, these...

[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] curl

New curl 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/curl-7.55.0-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes three security issues: URL globbing out of...

[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-4.0.7-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

[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] bind

New bind 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/bind-9.9.6P2-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Fix some denial-of-service and other security issues. For more...

[slackware-security] gnupg

New gnupg 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/gnupg-1.4.19-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Use ciphertext blinding for Elgamal decryption CVE-2014-3591. See...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba 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/samba-4.1.17-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This package fixes security issues since the last update: BUG 11077: CVE-2015-0240: talloc...

[slackware-security] pidgin

New pidgin 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: pidgin-2.10.10-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes several security issues: Insufficient SSL certificate...

openssl

New openssl 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/openssl-1.0.1f-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes the following security issues: Fix for TLS record tampering bu...

php

New php 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/php-5.4.13-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes two security issues in SOAP: Added check tha...

[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] 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...