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...

mariadb, mysql

New mariadb and mysql 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/mariadb-5.5.35-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a buffer overflow in the mysql...

gnutls

New gnutls 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/gnutls-3.1.21-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a flaw where a version 1 intermediate certificate would be...

ntp

New ntp 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/ntp-4.2.6p5-i486-5slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. All stable versions of NTP remain vulnerable to a remote attack wher...

curl

New curl 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/curl-7.35.0-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a flaw where libcurl could, in some circumstance...

seamonkey

New seamonkey 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/seamonkey-2.24-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, se...

mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird 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/mozilla-thunderbird-24.3.0-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox 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/mozilla-firefox-24.3.0esr-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

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: patches/packages/pidgin-2.10.9-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes various security issues and other bugs. For...

mozilla-nss

New mozilla-nss 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/mozilla-nss-3.15.4-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Upgraded to nss-3.15.4 and nspr-4.10.3. Fixes a possible...

bind

New bind 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/bind-9.9.4P2-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a defect in the handling of NSEC3-signed zones...

samba

New samba packages are available for Slackware 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/samba-4.1.4-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a heap-based buffer overflow that may allow AD domain controllers to...

php

New php 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/php-5.4.24-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. The asn1timetotimet function in ext/openssl/openssl.c in PHP before 5.3.28, 5.4.x befor...

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...

libXfont

New libXfont 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/libXfont-1.4.7-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a stack overflow when reading a BDF font...

[slackware-security] gnupg

New gnupg 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/gnupg-1.4.16-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed the RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey 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/seamonkey-2.23-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, se...

[slackware-security] ruby

New ruby packages are available for Slackware 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/ruby-1.9.3p484-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a heap overflow in floating point parsing. A...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird 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/mozilla-thunderbird-24.2.0-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox 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/mozilla-firefox-24.2.0esr-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] llvm

New llvm 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/llvm-3.3-i486-3slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. The LLVM package included binaries with an rpath pointing to the build location in /tmp...

[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] libiodbc

New libiodbc packages are available for Slackware 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/libiodbc-3.52.8-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes an rpath pointing to a location in /tmp that w...

[slackware-security] hplip

New hplip packages are available for Slackware 14.0 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/hplip-3.12.9-i486-4slack14.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update disables the automatic upgrade feature which can be easily fooled into downloading an...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey 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/seamonkey-2.22.1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information,...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-24.1.1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and...

[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-3.15.3-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey 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/seamonkey-2.22-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, se...

[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-4.1.1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes two security issues: Samba versions 3.2.0 and above do not check th...

[slackware-security] openssh

New openssh packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssh-6.4p1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. sshd8: fix a memory corruption problem triggered during rekeying when an AES-GCM cipher...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-24.1.1esr-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-17.0.10esr-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and...

[slackware-security] hplip

New hplip packages are available for Slackware 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/hplip-3.12.9-i486-3slack14.0.txz: Rebuilt. This fixes a polkit race condition that could allow local users to bypass...

[slackware-security] libtiff

New libtiff 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/libtiff-3.9.7-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. Patched overflows, crashes, and out of bounds writes...

[slackware-security] xorg-server

New xorg-server 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/xorg-server-1.12.4-i486-2slack14.0.txz: Rebuilt. Patched a use-after-free bug that can cause an ...

[slackware-security] libgpg-error

New libgpg-error packages are available for Slackware 13.37 and 14.0. These are needed for the updated gnupg2 package. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libgpg-error-1.11-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This package upgrade was needed by the new version of...

[slackware-security] gnutls

New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and 13.37 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnutls-2.10.5-i486-2slack13.37.txz: Rebuilt. Updated to the correct version to fix fetching the "latest" from gnu.org...

[slackware-security] gnupg2

New gnupg2 packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. These packages will require the updated libgpg-error package. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnupg2-2.0.22-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed possible...

[slackware-security] gnupg

New gnupg 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/gnupg-1.4.15-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed possible infinite recursion in the compressed packet...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 14.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/seamonkey-2.21-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-17.0.9esr-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvement...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-17.0.9esr-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For...

[slackware-security] glibc

New glibc packages are available for Slackware 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/glibc-2.15-i486-8slack14.0.txz: Rebuilt. Patched to fix integer overflows in pvalloc, valloc, and...

[slackware-security] subversion

New subversion packages are available for Slackware 14.0 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/subversion-1.7.13-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a local privilege escalation vulnerability via symlink attack...

[slackware-security] gnutls

New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 14.0 and -current to fix a security issue. Sorry about having to reissue this one -- I pulled it from ftp.gnu.org not realizing that the latest version there was actually months out of date. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/php-5.4.19-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed handling null bytes in subjectAltName CVE-2013-4248. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] gnutls

New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/gnutls-3.0.26-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update prevents a side-channel attack which may allow remote attackers to conduct...

[slackware-security] poppler

New poppler packages are available for Slackware 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/poppler-0.20.2-i486-2slack14.0.txz: Rebuilt. Sanitize error messages to remove escape sequences that could be used to exploit...

[slackware-security] xpdf

New xpdf 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/xpdf-3.03-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. Sanitize error messages to remove escape sequences that could ...

[slackware-security] hplip

New hplip 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/hplip-3.12.9-i486-2slack14.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes a stack-based buffer overflow in the...