patches/packages/coreutils-9.5-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.
chmod -R now avoids a race where an attacker may replace a traversed file
with a symlink, causing chmod to operate on an unintended file.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
split --line-bytes with a mixture of very long and short lines no longer
overwrites the heap.
For more information, see:
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0684
(* Security fix *)
patches/packages/util-linux-2.37.4-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt.
Copy /etc/pam.d/login to /etc/pam.d/remote. This is needed for /bin/login's
'-h' option, used (for example) by telnetd. If -h is used without
/etc/pam.d/remote, pam will not be configured properly, and /etc/securetty
will be ignored, possibly allowing root to login from a tty that is not
considered secure. Of course, the usual disclaimers about the security of
telnet/telnetd apply.
Thanks to HytronBG and Petri Kaukasoina.
(* Security fix *)
patches/packages/aaa_base-15.0-x86_64-4_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt.
If root's mailbox did not already exist, it would be created with insecure
permissions leading to possible local information disclosure. This update
ensures that a new mailbox will be created with proper permissions and
ownership, and corrects the permissions on an existing mailbox if they are
found to be incorrect. Thanks to Martin for the bug report.
(* Security fix *)
patches/packages/util-linux-2.37.4-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.
This release fixes a security issue in chsh(1) and chfn(8):
By default, these utilities had been linked with libreadline, which allows
the INPUTRC environment variable to be abused to produce an error message
containing data from an arbitrary file. So, don't link these utilities with
libreadline as it does not use secure_getenv() (or a similar concept), or
sanitize the config file path to avoid vulnerabilities that could occur in
set-user-ID or set-group-ID programs.
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-0563
(* Security fix *)
