Slackware Linux vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Slackware Linux is made by Slackware. We track 57 published vulnerabilities in it, across 34 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Slackware Linux, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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None of Slackware Linux's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.
Which Slackware Linux flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 40%CVE-1999-0368Critical
Buffer overflows in wuarchive ftpd (wu-ftpd) and ProFTPD lead to remote root access, a.k.a.
- 34%CVE-2013-4854High
The RFC 5011 implementation in rdata.c in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.5-P2, 9.8.6b1, 9.9.x before 9.9.3-P2, and 9.9.4b1, and DNSco BIND 9.9.3-S1 before 9.9.3-S1-P1 and 9.9.4-S1b1, allows remote attackers to...
- 21%CVE-2003-0962High
Heap-based buffer overflow in rsync before 2.5.7, when running in server mode, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and possibly escape the chroot jail.
- 16%CVE-2000-0844Critical
Some functions that implement the locale subsystem on Unix do not properly cleanse user-injected format strings, which allows local attackers to execute arbitrary commands via functions such as gettext and catopen.
- 11%CVE-2003-0195Medium
CUPS before 1.1.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a partial printing request to the IPP port (631), which does not time out.
- 10%CVE-1999-0192Critical
Buffer overflow in telnet daemon tgetent routing allows remote attackers to gain root access via the TERMCAP environmental variable.
- 9.1%CVE-1999-0041High
Buffer overflow in NLS (Natural Language Service).
- 8.6%CVE-2018-7184High
ntpd in ntp 4.2.8p4 before 4.2.8p11 drops bad packets before updating the "received" timestamp, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disruption) by sending a packet with a zero-origin timestamp...
- 7.0%CVE-2016-4448Critical
Format string vulnerability in libxml2 before 2.9.4 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via format string specifiers in unknown vectors.
- 6.9%CVE-2004-0891Critical
Buffer overflow in the MSN protocol handler for gaim 0.79 to 1.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an "unexpected sequence of MSNSLP...
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Buffer overflows in wuarchive ftpd (wu-ftpd) and ProFTPD lead to remote root access, a.k.a. palmetto.
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We track 57 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Slackware Linux, across 34 versions.
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