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Updated signing-party package fixes security vulnerability: The gpg-key2ps tool in signing-party contained an unsafe shell call enabling shell injection via a…
This update ships updated CPU microcode for CFL-S (Coffe Lake Desktop) models of Intel CPUs which were not yet included in the Intel microcode update released …
Version 3.0.7 fixes the following security vulnerability: CMS dissector crash (CVE-2019-19553). This update also brings the Mageia package from version 3.0.4 …
Update to security-release 1.8.5, adresses: * OPENAFS-SA-2019-001: Skip server OUT args on error * OPENAFS-SA-2019-002: Zero all server RPC args * OPENAFS-SA-…
Are you a Google Chrome user? GoogleÂhas releasedÂthe Chrome 79 web browser for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, and Chro…
It was found that freeimage, a graphics library, was affected by the following two security issues: CVE-2019-12211
It was found that Squid, a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, has been affected by the following security vulnerabilities.
Several security vulnerabilities were found in Ruby that also affected Debian's JRuby package, a pure-Java implementation of Ruby. Attackers were able to call …
Microsoft users once again face threats from a new phishing attack. This time, the attackers have utilized a new strategyMicrosoft Phishing Attack Bypasses Sec…
Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Updated thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities: Stack corruption due to incorrect number of arguments in WebRTC code. (CVE-2019-13722)
Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerabilities: Stack corruption due to incorrect number of arguments in WebRTC code. (CVE-2019-13722)
Updated lz4 packages fix security vulnerability: Heap-based buffer overflow in LZ4_write32 (CVE-2019-17543). References:
Updated nss packages fix security vulnerability: Out-of-bounds write when passing an output buffer smaller than the block size to NSC_EncryptUpdate (CVE-2019-…
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: Header::readfrom in IlmImf/ImfHeader.cpp in OpenEXR 2.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of serv…
The OpenSLP package had two open security issues: CVE-2017-17833
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: ImageMagick 7.0.8-35 has a memory leak in coders/dps.c, as demonstrated by XCreateImage. (CVE-2019-16709)
Updated sysstat package fixes security vulnerability: Memory corruption due to an integer overflow (CVE-2019-16167). References:
Updated python-psutil packages fix security vulnerability: Riccardo Schirone discovered that psutil incorrectly handled certain reference counting operations.…
Updated libvpx packages fix security vulnerabilities: It was discovered that libvpx did not properly handle certain malformed WebM media files. If an applicat…
Updated libvncserver packages fix security vulnerability: LibVNC contained a memory leak in VNC server code, which allowed an attacker to read stack memory an…
Updated tnef package fixes security vulnerability: In tnef, an attacker may be able to write to the victim's .ssh/authorized_keys file via an e-mail message …
Several security issues were fixed in libav, a multimedia library for processing audio and video files.
New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues.