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Updated libofx packages fix security vulnerability: There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function OFXApplication::startElement in the file lib/ofx_sgml.…
Updated ruby packages fix security vulnerabilities: It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue t…
The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to unconstrained interal data buffering, potentially leading to …
The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: In Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.3, nefarious CF files can be configured to run system commands without an…
Updated libmirage packages fix security vulnerabilities: The CSO filter in libMirage in CDemu did not validate the part size, triggering a heap-based buffer o…
New tigervnc packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.
New openssl packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix a security issue.
Stephan Zeisberg reported an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the _sasl_add_string() function in cyrus-sasl2, a library implementing the Simple Authenticat…
New wavpack packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues.
Updated htmldoc packages fix security vulnerability: In HTMLDOC, there was a one-byte underflow in htmldoc/ps-pdf.cxx caused by a floating point math differen…
Updated libssh packages fix security vulnerability: In an environment where a user is only allowed to copy files and not to execute applications, it would be …
Updated freerdp packages fix security vulnerabilities: Multiple memory leaks in libfreerdp/codec/region.c (CVE-2019-17177). Memory leak in HuffmanTree_makeFr…
Updated rsyslog packages fix security vulnerabilities: Heap overflow in the parser for AIX log messages (CVE-2019-17041). Heap overflow in the parser for Cis…
Updated apache-commons-beanutils packages fix security vulnerability: In Apache Commons Beanutils 1.9.2, a special BeanIntrospector class was added which allo…
pdated fence-agents package fixes security vulnerability: Denial of service via guest VM comments (CVE-2019-10153). References:
Besides rewarding ethical hackers from its pocket for responsibly reporting vulnerabilities in third-party open-source projects, Google today announced financi…
2010-2019 decade will be remembered as the time in which cybersecurity became acknowledged as a critical concern for all organizations.With rapidly growing sec…
Multiple security issues have been found in Thunderbird which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code. For Debian 8 "Jessie", these problem…
The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: The --export-marks option of git fast-import is exposed also via the in-stream command feature export-marks…
libgit2 has been updated to version 0.28.4 to fix several security issues: * A carefully constructed commit object with a very large number of parents may l…
Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerabilities: An information leak which allowed to retrieve the guest hostname under readonly mode (CVE-2019-3886).
Updated libcroco packages fix security vulnerabilities: Heap overflow (input: check end of input before reading a byte) (CVE-2017-7960).
This update provides an update to 5.4 series kernels, currently based on upstream 5.4.2, adding support for new hardware and features, and fixing atleast the f…
Updated ncurses packages fix security vulnerabilities: Heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function (CVE-2019-17594).