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David Woodfall's Homepage

Welcome

Welcome to my homepage. Here you can find material mostly to do with Linux and especially Slackware Linux, my distro of choice.

Here are my slackbuild scripts, bash scripts and some themes for Irssi. There are also a few scripts submitted by others. Check out my projects page for the latest tools that I've been working on. Latest Projects

You can find some information on the latest versions of projects and what I'm currently working on with finger - 'finger @dawoodfall.net' - direct to your console.

Some of you may know me as from ##slackware on irc.freenode.net where I use the nick 'dive'. Do drop in to ##slackware for help and also ##slackware-offtopic for a chat (or general sillyness ;-) )

I also have some scripts hosted at http://www.slackbuilds.org and tend to keep here the ones that can't be included in the main repo because they are updates to stock Slackware packages or for other reasons.

I will add some more HowTos as I go along (and when I've learnt how!)

 

Website Updated

As you can see the website has been updated. I am trying out Joomla, a fairly simple open source CMS. http://www.joomla.org I'm quite impressed with it so far. Adding content is fairly straightforward.

 

Changelogs

Slackware 13.1 Updates

Fri Aug 27 00:23:17 UTC 2010
patches/packages/gnupg2-2.0.14-i486-3_slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt.
Patched to fix "Realloc Bug with X.509 certificates in GnuPG".
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2547
(* Security fix *)
patches/packages/httpd-2.2.16-i486-1_slack13.1.txz: Upgraded.
Fix Handling of requests without a path segment.
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1452
(* Security fix *)
patches/packages/kdegraphics-4.4.3-i486-3_slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt.
Patched "Okular PDB Processing Memory Corruption Vulnerability"
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2575
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20100825-1.txt
(* Security fix *)
patches/packages/php-5.2.14-i486-1_slack13.1.txz: Upgraded.
Fixed several security issues.
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1917
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2225
http://www.php-security.org/2010/05/31/mops-2010-060-php-session-serializer-session-data-injection-vulnerability/index.html
http://www.php-security.org/2010/06/25/mops-2010-061-php-splobjectstorage-deserialization-use-after-free-vulnerability/index.html
(* Security fix *)
patches/packages/pidgin-2.7.3-i486-1_slack13.1.txz: Upgraded.
This fixes a crash due to malformed X-Status messages.
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2528
(* Security fix *)
patches/packages/xorg-server-1.7.7-i486-2_slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt.
Patched to prevent overwriting stack memory and bypassing security mechanisms
on systems that use a 2.6 Linux kernel. Reported by Rafal Wojtczuk.
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2240
(* Security fix *)
patches/packages/xorg-server-xephyr-1.7.7-i486-2_slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt.
patches/packages/xorg-server-xnest-1.7.7-i486-2_slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt.
patches/packages/xorg-server-xvfb-1.7.7-i486-2_slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt.
+--------------------------+

SLackware64 13.1 Updates

Fri Aug 27 00:23:17 UTC 2010
patches/packages/gnupg2-2.0.14-x86_64-3_slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt.
Patched to fix "Realloc Bug with X.509 certificates in GnuPG".
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2547
(* Security fix *)
patches/packages/httpd-2.2.16-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz: Upgraded.
Fix Handling of requests without a path segment.
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1452
(* Security fix *)
patches/packages/kdegraphics-4.4.3-x86_64-3_slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt.
Patched "Okular PDB Processing Memory Corruption Vulnerability"
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2575
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20100825-1.txt
(* Security fix *)
patches/packages/php-5.2.14-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz: Upgraded.
Fixed several security issues.
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1917
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2225
http://www.php-security.org/2010/05/31/mops-2010-060-php-session-serializer-session-data-injection-vulnerability/index.html
http://www.php-security.org/2010/06/25/mops-2010-061-php-splobjectstorage-deserialization-use-after-free-vulnerability/index.html
(* Security fix *)
patches/packages/pidgin-2.7.3-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz: Upgraded.
This fixes a crash due to malformed X-Status messages.
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2528
(* Security fix *)
patches/packages/xorg-server-1.7.7-x86_64-2_slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt.
Patched to prevent overwriting stack memory and bypassing security mechanisms
on systems that use a 2.6 Linux kernel. Reported by Rafal Wojtczuk.
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2240
(* Security fix *)
patches/packages/xorg-server-xephyr-1.7.7-x86_64-2_slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt.
patches/packages/xorg-server-xnest-1.7.7-x86_64-2_slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt.
patches/packages/xorg-server-xvfb-1.7.7-x86_64-2_slack13.1.txz: Rebuilt.
+--------------------------+

Slackware -current Updates

Sat Aug 28 21:25:51 UTC 2010
ap/vim-7.3.003-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libxml2-2.7.7-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/sdl-1.2.14-i486-3.txz: Rebuilt.
n/wpa_supplicant-0.6.10-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Added a missing [D-BUS Service] file.
Thanks to Robby Workman.
x/glew-1.5.5-i486-2.txz: Rebuilt.
xap/vim-gvim-7.3.003-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.
+--------------------------+

Slackware64 -current Updates

Sat Aug 28 21:25:51 UTC 2010
ap/vim-7.3.003-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libxml2-2.7.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/sdl-1.2.14-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
n/wpa_supplicant-0.6.10-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Added a missing [D-BUS Service] file.
Thanks to Robby Workman.
x/glew-1.5.5-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
xap/vim-gvim-7.3.003-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
+--------------------------+

 

Random Fortune

When you are about to do an objective and scientific piece of
investigation of a topic, it is well to gave the answer firmly in hand,
so that you can proceed forthrightly, without being deflected or
swayed, directly to the goal.
-- Amrom Katz