Security Advisories: ntp, xorg-server, and php

Three security advisories were released for -stable and -current branches of Slackware. They were:

• ntp: Upgraded to 4.2.8 for all -stable and -current branches. This fixed several security vulnerabilities discovered by Neel Mehta and Stephen Roettger of the Google Security Team.
• xorg-server: Rebuilt for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix many security issues discovered by Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive.
• php: Upgraded to 5.4.36 for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current

Meanwhile, in -current, there are more packages included in this batch, including:

• New LTS kernel release: 3.14.27
• vim and vim-gvim are upgraded to 7.4.560
• libusb upgraded to 1.0.19 (this allows USB passthrough for QEMU users)
• libusb-compat upgraded to 0.1.5
• libdrm upgraded to 2.4.58
• libvdpau: Added (originally available via SlackBuilds)
• mesa: Upgraded to 10.3.5
• MPlayer: Rebuilt to add support for libvdpau
• kernel 3.18.1 config files for kernel testers or developers