[slackware-security] seamonkey

New SeaMonkey packages are available for Slackware 11.0 and 12.0 to fix possible security issues. While this update has been reported to MozillaZine to "fix several security issues", details are not yet available. Presumably the issues are similar to the ones that were recently addressed in Firef...

[slackware-security] thunderbird

New Thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 11.0 and 12.0 to fix two possible security issues. This package may also be used on many older versions of Slackware though we're not certain how far back... More details about the issues may be found here:...

[slackware-security] firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 11.0 and 12.0 to fix security issues. Note that Firefox 1.5.x has reached its EOL end of life and is no longer being updated by mozilla.com. Users of Firefox 1.5.x are encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 2.x. Since we use the official Firefox...

[slackware-security] gd

GD is an open source code library for the dynamic creation of images. New gd packages are available for Slackware 11.0, and -current to fix possible security issues. Please see: http://www.libgd.org/ReleaseNote020035 for complete release notes. "Upgrading is strongly recommended." Here are the...

[slackware-security] thunderbird

A new thunderbird package is available for Slackware -current to fix two possible security issues. This package may also be used on many older versions of Slackware though we're not certain how far back... More details about the issues may be found here:...

[slackware-security] libexif

New libexif packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix a crash and potential security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-4168 Here are the details from the Slackware...

[slackware-security] firefox-seamonkey-thunderbird

New mozilla-firefox and seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix security issues. New thunderbird packages are are available for Slackware 10.2 and 11.0 to fix security issues. More details about this issue may be found at these links:...

[slackware-security] php5

New php5 packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix security issues. PHP5 was considered a test package in Slackware 10.2, and an "extra" package in Slackware 11.0. If you are currently running PHP4 you may wish to stick with that, as upgrading to PHP5 will probably...

[slackware-security] libpng

New libpng packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 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-2007-2445 Here are the details from the...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 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-2007-2444 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-2446...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, and -current to improve the stability and security of PHP. Quite a few bugs were fixed -- please see http://www.php.net for a detailed list. All sites that use PHP are encouraged to upgrade. Please note that we haven't tested all PHP...

[slackware-security] Slackware 11.0 x11-6.9.0 patch fix

A new x11-6.9.0-i486-14slack11.0.tgz patch is available for Slackware 11.0 to fix the inadvertent inclusion of two old fontconfig binaries. Installing the original fontconfig patch followed by the original x11 patch would cause fc-cache and fc-list to be overwritten by old versions, breaking...

[slackware-security] xine-lib

New xine-lib packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 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-2007-1246 Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0...

[slackware-security] freetype

New x11 and/or freetype and fontconfig packages are available for Slackware 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix security issues in freetype. Freetype was packaged with X11 prior to Slackware version 11.0. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE...

[slackware-security] qt

New qt packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 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-2007-0242 Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] ktorrent

New ktorrent packages are available for Slackware 11.0 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-2007-1384 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-1385 Here are the details from th...

[slackware-security] file [and bin package]

New file packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix a security issue. NOTE: In Slackware 11.0 and earlier, the file utility was part of the required "bin" package, so this patch is needed even if your machine does not have a "file" package...

[slackware-security] libwpd

New libwpd packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 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-2007-002 Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix security issues. Note that firefox-1.5.x will reach end-of-life next month, so upgrading to the 2.x branch soon is probably a good idea. - From http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2007/03/ "Note:...

[slackware-security] imagemagick

A new imagemagick package is available for Slackware 11.0 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-2006-5456 Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

A new seamonkey package is available for Slackware 11.0 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog: xap/seamonkey-1.0.8-i486-1slack11.0.tgz: Upgraded to seamonkey-1.0.8. This upgrade fixes several possible security bugs. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2, and 11.0 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog: xap/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.10-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to thunderbird-1.5.0.10. This upgrade fixes several possible security bugs. For more...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.2, and 11.0 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog: xap/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.10-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to firefox-1.5.0.10. This upgrade fixes several possible security bugs. For more information,...

[slackware-security] x11

New x11 packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and 11.0. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-6101 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-6102 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-6103 Here are the details...

[slackware-security] gnupg

New gnupg packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 to fix security ramifications of incorrect gpg usage. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-1263 Here are the details...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and 11.0 to improve the stability and security of PHP. Quite a few bugs were fixed -- please see http://www.php.net for a detailed list. All sites that use PHP are encouraged to upgrade. Please note that we haven't tested all PHP applications for...

[slackware-security] samba

New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 to fix a denial-of-service security issue. More details about the issues fixed in Samba 3.0.24 may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-0452...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 to fix denial of service security issues. Versions of bind-9.2.x older than bind-9.2.8, and versions of bind-9.3.x older than 9.3.4 can be made to crash with malformed local or remote data. More details about...

[slackware-security] fetchmail

New fetchmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 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-2006-5974 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-5867 He...

[slackware-security] xine-lib

New xine-lib packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 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-2006-2200 Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0...

[slackware-security] koffice

A new koffice package is available for Slackware 10.2 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-2006-6120 Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] seamonkey

A new seamonkey package is available for Slackware 11.0 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/seamonkey-1.0.7-i486-1slack11.0.tgz: Upgraded to seamonkey-1.0.7. This upgrade fixes several possible security bugs. For more information, see:...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and 11.0 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.9-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to thunderbird-1.5.0.9. This upgrade fixes several possible security bugs. F...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and 11.0 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog: extra/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.1/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.1-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1. This upgrade fixes several possible securit...

[slackware-security] gnupg [resigned]

Hello, As many people have pointed out, the last advisory SSA:2006-340-01 was not signed with the usual Slackware Security Team key fingerprint 40102233. I did some reconfiguration on the box that does the distribution signing and it had some unintended side-effects. :-/ Several CHECKSUMS.md5.asc...

[slackware-security] gnupg

New gnupg packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found here: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q4/000491.html https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-6235 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-61...

[slackware-security] libpng

New libpng packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 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-2006-5793 Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0...

[slackware-security] proftpd

New proftpd packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 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-2006-5815 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-6170...

[slackware-security] tar

New tar packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 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-2006-6097 Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0...

SSA-2006-1110030528

The original advisory for this issue contained incorrect URLs for the Slackware 11.0 patches. Sorry about that! The URLs for the 10.2 packages were correct and the Firefox/Thunderbird links given for 11.0 would have been just fine anyway since 10.2 and 11.0 are using the same packages for those...

[slackware-security] firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey

New Firefox and Thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and 11.0 to fix security issues. In addition, a new Seamonkey package is available for Slackware 11.0 to fix similar issues. More details about the issues may be found here:...

[fixed URLs] firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey

The original advisory for this issue contained incorrect URLs for the Slackware 11.0 patches. Sorry about that! The URLs for the 10.2 packages were correct and the Firefox/Thunderbird links given for 11.0 would have been just fine anyway since 10.2 and 11.0 are using the same packages for those...

[slackware-security] bind

New bind packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 to fix security issues. The minimum OpenSSL version was raised to OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.8d to avoid exposure to known security flaws in older versions these patches were already issued for Slackware. ...

[slackware-security] screen

New screen packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 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-2006-4573 Here are the details from the Slackware 11....

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and 11.0 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-2006-5465 Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] qt

New qt packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 to fix a possible security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-4811 Trolltech has put out a press release which may be...

[slackware-security] openssh

New openssh packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 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-2006-4924 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-5051...

[slackware-security] openssl

New openssl packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 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-2006-2937 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-3738...

[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] x11

New x11 X.Org packages are available for Slackware 10.2, and -current to fix security issues due to overflows in font parsing. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-3739...