[slackware-security] tetex PDF security

New tetex packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix a possible security issue. teTeX-3.0 incorporates some code from the xpdf program which has been shown to have various overflows that could result in program crashes or possibly the execution of arbitrary code as the teTeX...

[slackware-security] Apache httpd redux

New Apache packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a bug with Apache 1.3.35 and glibc that breaks wildcards in Include directives. It may not occur with all versions of glibc, but it has been verified on -current using an Include within a file...

[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...

[slackware-security] Apache httpd

New Apache 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 the issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2005-3352 In addition, new modssl packages for...

[slackware-security] firefox

New Firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix a security issue. More details about the issues may be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlfirefox1.5.0.3 Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] xorg server overflow

New xorg and xorg-devel packages are available for Slackware 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. A typo in the X render extension in X.Org 6.8.0 or later allows an X client to crash the server and possibly to execute arbitrary code as the X server user typically this is "root". More...

[slackware-security] thunderbird

New Thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlthunderbird Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] mozilla security/EOL

New Mozilla packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2 and -current to fix multiple security issues. More details about the issues may be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlmozilla Also note that this release marks the EOL End Of Life for the...

[slackware-security] firefox

New Firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlfirefox1.5.0.2 Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] sendmail

New sendmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Sendmail's advisory concerning this issue may be found here: http://www.sendmail.com/company/advisory/index.shtml This issue will appear in the Common Vulnerabilities and...

[slackware-security] gnupg

New GnuPG packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 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-2006-0455 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-0049 Here are...

[slackware-security] Slackware 10.1 kdegraphics

A new kdegraphics package is available for Slackware 10.1 to fix a security issue. A portion of the recent security patch was missing in the version that was applied to kdegraphics-3.3.2 in Slackware 10.1. Other versions of Slackware are not affected by this specific missing patch issue. More...

[slackware-security] kdelibs

New kdelibs packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2 to fix a security issue with kjs. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-0019 Additional information may be found on the KDE website...

[slackware-security] xpdf

New xpdf packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 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-2005-3191 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2005-3192...

[slackware-security] sudo

New sudo packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 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-2006-0151 Here are the details from the Slackware...

[slackware-security] php

New php packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix minor security issues. More details about these issues may be found on the PHP website: http://www.php.net/release442.php Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/php-4.4.2-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded t...

[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 a security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-0225 Here are the details from the Slackwar...

[slackware-security] kdegraphics

New kdegraphics packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues with kpdf. More details about these issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2005-3191 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2005-3192...

[slackware-security] imagemagick

New imagemagick packages are available for Slackware 10.2 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-2005-4601 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-0082 Here are the details from...

[slackware-security] firefox

New Firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlfirefox1.5.0.1 Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] fetchmail

New fetchmail 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 this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2005-3088 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2005-4348...

[slackware-security] elm mailer

New Elm packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. A buffer overflow in the parsing of the Expires header could allow arbitrary code to be executed as the user running Elm. Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog:...

[slackware-security] PHP

New PHP packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix minor security issues relating to the overwriting of the GLOBALS array. It has been reported here that this new version of PHP also breaks squirrelmail and probably some other things. Given the vague nature of the security...

[slackware-security] KOffice/KWord

New KOffice packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue with KWord. A buffer overflow in the RTF import functionality could result in the execution of arbitrary code. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and...

imapd

New imapd packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix an alleged security issue. See the details below for more information. Also, new Pine packages are provided since these are built together... why not? Might as well upgrade that too, while I'm fixi...

apache

New apache packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix potential security issues: If a request contains both Transfer-Encoding and Content-Length headers, remove the Content-Length, mitigating some HTTP Request Splitting/Spoofing attacks. Added...

lynx

New Lynx packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. An overflow could result in the execution of arbitrary code when using Lynx to connect to a malicious NNTP server. More details about this issue may be found in the Common...

curl/wget

New curl packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current, and new wget packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current. These address a buffer overflow in NTLM handling which may present a security problem, though no public exploits are...

OpenSSL

New OpenSSL packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Under certain conditions, an attacker acting as a "man in the middle" may force a client and server to fall back to the less-secure SSL 2.0 protocol. More details about this iss...

xine-lib

New xine-lib packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. A format string bug may allow the execution of arbitrary code as the user running a xine-lib linked application. The attacker must provide by uploading or running a server specially...

[repost] [slackware-security] Thunderbird email client

New Thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix a security issue: MFSA 2005-59 Command-line handling on Linux allows shell execution More details about this issue may be found on the Mozilla web site:...

Thunderbird email client

New Thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix a security issue: MFSA 2005-59 Command-line handling on Linux allows shell execution More details about this issue may be found on the Mozilla web site:...

X.Org pixmap overflow

New X.Org server packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue. An integer overflow in the pixmap handling code may allow the execution of arbitrary code through a specially crafted pixmap. Slackware 10.2 was patched against this vulnerability before...

Mozilla/Firefox

New Mozilla and Firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues: MFSA 2005-59 Command-line handling on Linux allows shell execution MFSA 2005-58 Firefox 1.0.7 / Mozilla Suite 1.7.12 Vulnerability Fixes MFSA 2005-57 IDN heap overrun using...

util-linux umount privilege escalation

New util-linux packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issue with umount. A bug in the '-r' option could allow flags in /etc/fstab to be improperly dropped on user-mountable volumes, allowing a user to gain root privileges. For more details,...

dhcpcd DoS

New dhcpcd packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a minor security issue. The dhcpcd daemon can be tricked into reading past the end of the DHCP buffer by a malicious DHCP server, which causes the dhcpcd daemon to crash and results in a denial of...

php5 in Slackware 10.1

A new php5 package is available for Slackware 10.1 in /testing to fix security issues. PHP has been relinked with the shared PCRE library to fix an overflow issue with PHP's builtin PRCE code, and PEAR::XMLRPC has been upgraded to version 1.4.0 which eliminates the eval function. The eval functio...

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...

mod_ssl

New modssl packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issue. If "SSLVerifyClient optional" was configured in the global section of the config file, it could improperly override "SSLVerifyClient require" in a per-location section. More details...

kcheckpass in kdebase

New kdebase packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issue with the kcheckpass program. Earlier versions of Slackware are not affected. A flaw in the way the program creates lockfiles could allow a local attacker to gain root privileges. For more details abo...

gaim

New gaim packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix some security issues. including: AIM/ICQ away message buffer overflow AIM/ICQ non-UTF-8 filename crash Gadu-Gadu memory alignment bug Sites that use GAIM should upgrade to the new version. More details about...

PHP

New PHP packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues. PHP has been relinked with the shared PCRE library to fix an overflow issue with PHP's builtin PRCE code, and PEAR::XMLRPC has been upgraded to version 1.4.0 which eliminates the eval...

PCRE library

New PCRE packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issue. A buffer overflow could be triggered by a specially crafted regular expression. Any applications that use PCRE to process untrusted regular expressions may be exploited to run arbitrary...

telnet client

New tcpip packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issues with the telnet client. Overflows in the telnet client may lead to the execution of arbitrary code as the telnet user if the user connects to a malicious telnet server. More details abo...

fetchmail

New fetchmail packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues. Connecting to a malicious or compromised POP3 server may overflow fetchmail's stack causing a crash or the execution of arbitrary code. For more information about this issue, see:...

gxine format string vulnerability

New gxine packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a format string security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1692 Here are the details from...

zlib

New zlib packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix an additional crash issue. zlib 1.1.x is not affected. Here are the details from the Slackware 10.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/zlib-1.2.3-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to zlib-1.2.3. This fixes an additional crash not fixed by...

kdenetwork

New kdenetwork packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix security issues. Overflows in libgadu used by kopete that can cause a denial of service or arbitrary code execution. More details about this vulnerability may be found here:...

Mozilla/Firefox

New Mozilla packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix various security issues and bugs. See the Mozilla site for a complete list of the issues patched: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlMozilla New versions of the mozilla-plugins symlink...

emacs movemail POP utility

New emacs packages are available for Slackware 10.1 and -current to a security issue with the movemail utility for retrieving mail from a POP mail server. If used to connect to a malicious POP server, it is possible for the server to cause the execution of arbitrary code as the user running emacs...