Entries from May 2008
Here are the slackware-current changelog updates:
Tue May 27 22:12:01 CDT 2008
a/mkinitrd-1.3.2-i486-3.tgz: Initialize RAID earlier so that the combination
of RAID+LUKS+LVM works. Thanks to Eric Hameleers.
xap/rdesktop-1.6.0-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to rdesktop-1.6.0.
According to the rdesktop ChangeLog, this contains a:
“* Fix for potential vulnerability against compromised/malicious servers
(reported by iDefense)”
This package build also includes the new alsa driver (–with-sound=alsa),
though I couldn’t get local sound redirection. Perhaps it was just my
command line error though, so the driver remains included for testing.
For more information on the security issue, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1801
(* Security fix *)
extra/ktorrent/ktorrent-2.2.7-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to ktorrent-2.2.7.
Categories: ChangeLogs · Slackware
Here are the slackware-current changelog updates:
Wed May 14 17:22:14 CDT 2008
extra/slackpkg/slackpkg-2.70.4-noarch-1.tgz:
Upgraded to slackpkg 2.70.4-noarch-1. This fixes a bug where the “x86″
ARCH was not recognized in a package name, leading to the kernel-headers
package not getting properly upgraded. Thanks to Piter Punk! -:)
Categories: ChangeLogs · Slackware
Here are the slackware-current changelog updates:
Wed May 7 16:13:31 CDT 2008
n/php-5.2.6-i486-1.tgz:
Upgraded to PHP 5.2.6.
This version of PHP contains many fixes and enhancements. Some of the fixes
are security related, and the PHP release announcement provides this list:
* Fixed possible stack buffer overflow in the FastCGI SAPI identified by
Andrei Nigmatulin.
* Fixed integer overflow in printf() identified by Maksymilian Aciemowicz.
* Fixed security issue detailed in CVE-2008-0599 identified by Ryan Permeh.
* Fixed a safe_mode bypass in cURL identified by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.
* Properly address incomplete multibyte chars inside escapeshellcmd()
identified by Stefan Esser.
* Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 7.6
When last checked, CVE-2008-0599 was not yet open. However, additional
information should become available at this URL:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0599
The list reproduced above, as well as additional information about other
fixes in PHP 5.2.6 may be found in the PHP release announcement here:
http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_6.php
xap/mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.14-i686-1.tgz:
Upgraded to thunderbird-2.0.0.14.
This upgrade fixes some more security bugs.
For more information, see:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#thunderbird
(* Security fix *)
Categories: ChangeLogs · Slackware
Here are the slackware-current changelog updates:
Thu May 1 13:36:34 CDT 2008
Slackware 12.1 is released as -stable. 
Again, huge thanks to everybody
who pitched in and helped with bug reports, patches, testing, suggestions,
other comments, and everything else. Without this valuable input, Slackware
would be nowhere near what it is today. Special thanks to the CREW, to the
people developing and testing for slackbuilds.org (where many of Slackware’s
future additions are first built and tested), and to everyone on
linuxquestions.org, various #slackware or ##slackware IRC channels, other
Slackware related web sites, and other places where the community shares their
needs and concerns with the team. On behalf of everyone here, thanks.
We think you’ll enjoy this new release, and hope that you’ll find it to be
much more than 0.1 better than Slackware 12.0. 
Have fun! -P.
extra/slackpkg/slackpkg-2.70.3-noarch-2.tgz: Updated the version in the
slackpkg script from 2.70.2 to 2.70.3.
Categories: ChangeLogs · Slackware
After 4 release candidates, Slackware 12.1 is finally out.
Categories: Slackware
