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Updated compat-openssl10 and openssl packages fix security vulnerability: There is an overflow bug in the x64_64 Montgomery squaring procedure used in exponen…
Updated dia package fixes security vulnerability: An endless loop on filenames with invalid encoding (CVE-2019-19451). References:
Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability: MediaWiki through 1.33.1 allows attackers to bypass the Title_blacklist protection mechanism by startin…
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.10 has a memory leak related to newDoo…
The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: When FreeImage 3.18.0 reads a tiff file, it will be handed to the Load function of the PluginTIFF.cpp file,…
Updated jss packages fix security vulnerability: A flaw was found in the "Leaf and Chain" OCSP policy implementation in JSS CryptoManager, where it implicitly…
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: Catalog.cc in Xpdf 4.02 has a NULL pointer dereference because Catalog.pageLabels is initialized too late i…
Updated hunspell packages fix security vulnerability: Hunspell 1.7.0 has an invalid read operation in SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx (CVE-2…
Updated pdfresurrect package fixes security vulnerabilities: A vulnerability was found in PDFResurrect 0.15 has a buffer overflow via a crafted PDF file becau…
Updated filezilla packages fix bugs and a security vulnerability: Filenames containing double-quotation marks were not escaped correctly when selected for ope…
Several security bugs have been identified and fixed in php5, a server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language. The affected components include the exif module …
It was found that freeimage, a graphics library, was affected by the following two security issues: CVE-2019-12211
This update is based on upstream 5.4.6 and fixes various potential security issues related to buffer overflows, double frees, NUll pointer dereferences, impro…
Updated php packages fix security vulnerabilities: DirectoryIterator class silently truncates after a null byte (CVE-2019-11045).
he updated packages fix security vulnerabilities and a packaging problem: An out-of-bounds memory read flaw was found in the way 389-ds-base handled certain L…
The updated package fixes a security vulnerability: A flaw was found in mod_auth_openidc before version 2.4.0.1. An open redirect issue exists in URLs with tr…
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…