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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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
New Firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found here:
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:
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:
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.
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,
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
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:
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
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
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