5 Security Updates for Slackware Linux

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The following 5 security updates are available for Slackware Linux:

- seamonkey (SSA:2010-176-03)
- bind (SSA:2010-176-01)
- mozilla-firefox (SSA:2010-176-02)
- mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2010-176-04)
- cups (SSA:2010-176-05)

bind 10.2/11.0 recompile (SSA:2009-015-01)

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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 and 11.0 systems running 2.6 kernels, and although the installed kernel headers are from 2.4.x, it picked up on this resulting in packages that would only run under 2.4 kernels. These new packages address the issue.

php (SSA:2008-339-01)

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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.

gnutls (SSA:2008-320-01)

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New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, and -current to correctly fix the certificate chain verification issue that the upgrade to gnutls-2.6.1 attempted to fix. Without this upgrade, processing a certificate chain containing only one self-signed certificate may cause GnuTLS linked programs to crash.

net-snmp

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New net-snmp packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix a denial of service issue.

php (SSA:2008-247-01)

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New php packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and 11.0 to fix security issues. These releases are the last to contain PHP 4.4.x, which was upgraded to version 4.4.9 to fix PCRE issues and other bugs.

Please note that this is the FINAL release of PHP4, and it has already passed the announced end-of-life. Sites should seriously consider migrating to PHP5 rather than upgrading to php-4.4.9.

python (SSA:2008-217-01)

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New python packages are available for Slackware 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues.

More details about the issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1679
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1721
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2315
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2316
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3142
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3144

ruby (SSA:2008-179-01)

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New ruby packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues.

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=CVE-2008-2662
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2663
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2664
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2725
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2726

samba (SSA:2008-149-01)

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New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix a security issue:

"Specifically crafted SMB responses can result in a heap overflow in the Samba client code. Because the server process, smbd, can itself act as a client during operations such as printer notification and domain authentication, this issue affects both Samba client and server installations."

This flaw affects Samba versions from 3.0.0 through 3.0.29.

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=CVE-2008-1105

libpng (SSA:2008-119-01)

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New libpng packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix a 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=CVE-2008-1382

Additional information can be found in the libpng source, or in this file on the libpng FTP site:

ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/src/libpng-1.2.27-README.txt

xine-lib (SSA:2008-111-01)

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New xine-lib packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix security issues.

An overflow was found in the Speex decoder that could lead to a crash or
possible execution of arbitrary code. Xine-lib <= 1.1.12 was also found to be vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow in the NES demuxer (thanks to milw0rm.com).

More details about the first issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1686

cups (SSA:2008-094-01)

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New cups packages are available for Slackware 12.0, and -current to fix security issues. The change from CUPS 1.2.x to CUPS 1.3.x was tested here, but if you're on a completely secured internal network these issues may be less of a risk than upgrading. If your IPP port is open to the internet, you'd be advised to upgrade as soon as possible (or firewall the port at the gateway if you're not in need of printer jobs coming in from the internet).

More details about the issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0047
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1373

httpd (SSA:2008-045-01)

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New httpd packages are available for Slackware 12.0, and -current to fix security issues.

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=CVE-2007-6421
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6422
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6388
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5000
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0005

apache (SSA:2008-045-02)

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New apache 1.3.41 packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 to fix security issues.

A new matching mod_ssl package is also provided.

More details about the issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6388
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5000
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3847

firefox, seamonkey (SSA:2008-043-01)

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New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix security issues. New seamonkey updates are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, and -current to address similar issues.

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