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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).
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 …