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Products by Slackware Sorted by Most Security Vulnerabilities since 2018

Slackware Linux13 vulnerabilities

Slackware2 vulnerabilities

By the Year

In 2026 there have been 0 vulnerabilities in Slackware. Slackware did not have any published security vulnerabilities last year.

Year	Vulnerabilities	Average Score
2026	0	0.00
2025	0	0.00
2024	0	0.00
2023	0	0.00
2022	0	0.00
2021	0	0.00
2020	0	0.00
2019	1	6.50
2018	2	7.65

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Recent Slackware Security Vulnerabilities

CVE	Date	Vulnerability	Products
CVE-2019-11135	Nov 14, 2019	TSX Asynchronous Abort condition on some CPUs utilizing speculative execution may TSX Asynchronous Abort condition on some CPUs utilizing speculative execution may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via a side channel with local access.	Slackware
CVE-2018-9336	May 01, 2018	openvpnserv.exe (aka the interactive service helper) in OpenVPN 2.4.x before 2.4.6 openvpnserv.exe (aka the interactive service helper) in OpenVPN 2.4.x before 2.4.6 allows a local attacker to cause a double-free of memory by sending a malformed request to the interactive service. This could cause a denial-of-service through memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact including privilege escalation.	Slackware Linux
CVE-2018-7184	Mar 06, 2018	ntpd in ntp 4.2.8p4 before 4.2.8p11 drops bad packets before updating the "received" timestamp, which 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 causing the association to reset and setting the contents of the packet as the most recent timestamp. This issue is a result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-7704.	Slackware Linux
CVE-2016-4448	Jun 09, 2016	Format string vulnerability in libxml2 before 2.9.4 Format string vulnerability in libxml2 before 2.9.4 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via format string specifiers in unknown vectors.	Slackware Linux
CVE-2007-3798	Jul 16, 2007	Integer overflow in print-bgp.c in the BGP dissector in tcpdump 3.9.6 and earlier Integer overflow in print-bgp.c in the BGP dissector in tcpdump 3.9.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted TLVs in a BGP packet, related to an unchecked return value.	Slackware
CVE-2004-0940	Feb 09, 2005	Buffer overflow in the get_tag function in mod_include for Apache 1.3.x to 1.3.32 allows local users who can create SSI documents to execute arbitrary code as the apache user via SSI (XSSI) documents Buffer overflow in the get_tag function in mod_include for Apache 1.3.x to 1.3.32 allows local users who can create SSI documents to execute arbitrary code as the apache user via SSI (XSSI) documents that trigger a length calculation error.	Slackware Linux
CVE-1999-0856	Dec 01, 1999	login in Slackware 7.0 login in Slackware 7.0 allows remote attackers to identify valid users on the system by reporting an encryption error when an account is locked or does not exist.	Slackware Linux
CVE-1999-0433	Mar 21, 1999	XFree86 startx command is vulnerable to a symlink attack XFree86 startx command is vulnerable to a symlink attack, allowing local users to create files in restricted directories, possibly allowing them to gain privileges or cause a denial of service.	Slackware Linux
CVE-1999-0368	Feb 09, 1999	Buffer overflows in wuarchive ftpd (wu-ftpd) and ProFTPD lead to remote root access, a.k.a Buffer overflows in wuarchive ftpd (wu-ftpd) and ProFTPD lead to remote root access, a.k.a. palmetto.	Slackware Linux
CVE-1999-0341	Jan 01, 1998	Buffer overflow in the Linux mail program "deliver" Buffer overflow in the Linux mail program "deliver" allows local users to gain root access.	Slackware Linux