Slackware-10.0 ChangeLog (2005-11-06)

Sat Nov 5 22:15:34 CST 2005

  • patches/packages/apache-1.3.34-i486-1.tgz
    Fixes this minor security bug: “If a request contains both Transfer-Encoding
    and Content-Length headers, remove the Content-Length, mitigating some HTTP
    Request Splitting/Spoofing attacks.”
    (* Security fix *)
  • patches/packages/imapd-4.64-i486-1.tgz
    A buffer overflow was reported in the mail_valid_net_parse_work function.
    However, this function in the c-client library does not appear to be called
    from anywhere in imapd. iDefense states that the issue is of LOW risk to
    sites that allow users shell access, and LOW-MODERATE risk to other servers.
    I believe it's possible that it is of NIL risk if the function is indeed
    dead code to imapd, but draw your own conclusions…
    (* Security fix *)
  • patches/packages/lynx-2.8.5rel.5-i486-1.tgz
    Fixes an issue where the handling of Asian characters when using lynx to
    connect to an NNTP server (is this a common use?) could result in a buffer
    overflow causing the execution of arbitrary code.
    For more details, see:
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3120
    (* Security fix *)
    patches/packages/mod_ssl-2.8.25_1.3.34-i486-1.tgz:
    Upgraded to mod_ssl-2.8.25-1.3.34.
  • patches/packages/pine-4.64-i486-1.tgz
  • news/2005/11/06/slackware-10.0-changelog.txt
  • Last modified: 12 months ago
  • by Giuseppe Di Terlizzi