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, 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-2009-0696 ISC has published...

mozilla-firefox

A new mozilla-firefox package is available for Slackware 12.2 to fix security issues. The updated packages may also be used with Slackware 11.0 or newer. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla website: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html Here ar...

dhcp

New dhcp 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, and -current to fix a security issue with dhclient. Note that dhclient is not the default DHCP client in Slackware's networking scripts, dhcpcd is. However, if you use dhclient on a network wher...

ghostscript

New ghostscript packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 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-2009-0196 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-0583...

mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird20.html Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2...

samba

New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 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-2009-1888...

seamonkey

New seamonkey 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 on the Mozilla web site: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey11.html Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2...

ruby

New ruby packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 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-2009-1904 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2...

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, and -current to fix a security issue. Jeff Phillips discovered an uninitialized-memory-read bug affecting interlaced images that may have security implications. More details about this issue m...

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...

mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. The updated packages may also be used with Slackware 11.0 or newer. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla website:...

ntp

New ntp 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, 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-2009-0159...

pidgin

New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 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-2009-1373 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-1374...

cyrus-sasl

New cyrus-sasl packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix a security issue. A buffer overflow in the saslencode64 function could lead to a denial of service or possible execution of arbitrary code. More details about this issue may be found in the Commo...

xpdf

New xpdf packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 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-2009-0146...

gnutls

New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 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-2009-1415 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-1416 Here are the...

ruby

New ruby packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix a problem with REXML and other security issues. For details about the REXML issue, see: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/23/dos-vulnerability-in-rexml/ A full list may be found in the ChangeLog file...

mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 12.2 and -current to fix security issues. The updated packages may also be used with Slackware 11.0 or newer. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla website:...

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...

cups

New cups packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 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-2009-0146 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-0147...

mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 12.2 and -current to fix security issues. The updated packages may also be used with Slackware 11.0 or newer. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla website:...

udev reissued for 12.2/current

Updated udev packages are available for Slackware 12.2, and -current to fix a serial device ownership regression in 12.2, adjust the perms on /dev/rtc0, and make sure that the /dev/root symlink is properly created. Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2 ChangeLog:...

udev

New udev packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. The udev packages in Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current contained a local root hole vulnerability: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-1185 The udev packages in Slackwar...

seamonkey

New seamonkey 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 on the Mozilla web site: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey11.html Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2...

xine-lib

New xine-lib packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 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-2009-0385 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2 ChangeLo...

php

New php packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 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-2008-5498 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2...

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...

glib2

New glib2 packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix overflows that may be security issues. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2008-4316 Here are the details from the...

mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. The new packages may also be used with earlier versions of Slackware. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla website:...

mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla site: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird20.html Here are the details from the...

seamonkey

New seamonkey 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 on the Mozilla web site: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey11.html Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2...

lcms

New lcms packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 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-2009-0581...

xterm

New xterm 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-2008-2383 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2 ChangeLog:...

mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. The new packages may also be used with earlier versions of Slackware. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla website:...

curl

New curl packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 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-2009-0037 Here are the details from t...

git

New git packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 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-2008-3546 There are other security issues related to gitweb, which...

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, 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-2009-0040 Here are the...

wicd

New wicd packages are available for Slackware 12.2 and -current to fix a security issue with the D-Bus configuration file that could allow local information disclosure such as network credentials. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database:...

mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 12.2 and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla website: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2 ChangeLog:...

xdg-utils

New xdg-utils packages are available for Slackware 12.2 and -current to fix security issues. Applications that use /etc/mailcap could be tricked into running an arbitrary script through xdg-open, and a separate flaw in xdg-open could allow the execution of arbitrary commands embedded in untrusted...

bind 10.2/11.0 recompile

Updated bind packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and 11.0 to address a load problem. It was reported that the initial build of these updates complained that the Linux capability module was not present and would refuse to load. It was determined that the packages which were compiled on 10.2...

ntp

New ntp 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, and -current to a fix security issue. More details about this issue may be found here: https://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/announce/2009-January/000055.html...

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, and -current to fix a security issue. More details about this issue may be found here: https://www.isc.org/node/373 http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-016.html...

openssl

New openssl packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix a security issue when connecting to an SSL/TLS server that uses a certificate containing a DSA or ECDSA key. More details about this issue may be found here: http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv20090107.txt...

samba

New samba packages are available for Slackware 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-2009-0022 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla site: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird20.html Here are the details from the...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

New seamonkey 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 on the Mozilla web site: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey11.html Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla website: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox20.html...

[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] ruby

New ruby packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, and 12.1 to fix bugs and a security issue. More details about the issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2008-1447 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog:...