Slackware-10.0 ChangeLog (2005-07-22)

Fri Jul 22 13:50:25 PDT 2005

patches/packages/fetchmail-6.2.5.2-i486-1.tgz:
Upgraded to fetchmail-6.2.5.2.
This fixes an overflow by which malicious or compromised POP3 servers
may overflow fetchmail's stack.
For more information, see:
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt
(* Security fix *)
  • patches/packages/gxine-0.4.6-i486-1.tgz
    This fixes a format string vulnerability that allows remote attackers to
    execute arbitrary code via a ram file with a URL whose hostname contains
    format string specifiers.
    For more information, see:
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1692
    (* Security fix *)
  • patches/packages/zlib-1.2.3-i486-1.tgz
    This fixes an additional crash not fixed by the patch to zlib-1.2.2.
    (* Security fix *)

Fri Jul 22 10:33:15 PDT 2005

  • patches/packages/mozilla-plugins-1.7.10-noarch-1.tgz
    symlink for Mozilla.
  • news/2005/07/22/slackware-10.0-changelog.txt
  • Last modified: 12 months ago
  • by Giuseppe Di Terlizzi