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:
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:
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:
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:
New Firefox and Thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. In addition, a new Seamonkey package is available for Slackware -current to fix similar issues.
New openssl packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a signature forgery security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:
New bind packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a Denial of Service issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:
New php packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security and other issues. More details about these issues may be found on the PHP website:
New libtiff packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues. These issues could be used to crash programs linked to libtiff or possibly to execute code as the program's user.
New php packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security and other issues. More details about these issues may be found on the PHP website:
New GnuPG packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues which could allow an attacker to crash gnupg and possibly overwrite memory which could lead to an integer overflow.
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:
New Apache packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security issue with mod_rewrite. More details about the issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:
New Firefox and Thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. In addition, a new Seamonkey package is available for Slackware -current to fix similar issues.
New gimp packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix a possible security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:
New xine-lib packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. More details about these issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:
New x11 packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. In addition, fontconfig and freetype have been split out from the x11 packages in -current, so if you run -current you'll also need to install those new packages.
New mutt packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a possible security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:
New Samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current. In Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2, Samba was evidently picking up the libdm.so.0 library causing a Samba package issued primarily as
New Samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix a security related (but in my own and also the Samba's team member who made their WHATSNEW.txt entry, "minor") denial of service issue.
