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Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: Several ELF objects were found to have rpaths pointing into /tmp, a world writable directory. This could have allowed a local attacker to launch denial of service attacks or execute arbitrary code when the affected binaries are run by placing crafted ELF objects in the /tmp rpath location. All rpaths with an embedded /tmp path have been scrubbed from the binaries, and makepkg has gained a lint feature to detect these so that they won't creep back in. extra/llvm-17.0.6-i586-2_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Remove rpaths from binaries. (* Security fix *) patches/packages/cryfs-0.10.3-i586-5_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Remove rpaths from binaries. (* Security fix *) patches/packages/espeak-ng-1.50-i586-4_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Remove rpaths from binaries. (* Security fix *) patches/packages/libvncserver-0.9.13-i586-4_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Remove rpaths from binaries. (* Security fix
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Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages using upgradepkg or slackpkg.