Debian GNU/Linux Security Update - DSA-2026-080-07 Released Today
slackware
March 11, 2026
New libxml2 packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues.
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libxml2-2.11.9-i586-8_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes security issues: CVE-2026-1757 fix: Memory leak in xmllint Shell - shell.c CVE-2026-0990 fix: Prevent infinite recursion in xmlCatalogListXMLResolve CVE-2026-0992 fix: Exponential behavior when handling parser: Fix infinite loop in xmlCtxtParseContent CVE-2025-10911 libxslt related: Ignore next/prev of documents when traversing XPath CVE-2026-0989 fix: Add RelaxNG include limit Thanks to r1w1s1 for locating the backported patches. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-1757 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0990 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0992 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-10911 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0989 (* Security fix *)
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Where Find New Packages
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for
additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/libxml2-2.11.9-i586-8_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/libxml2-2.11.9-x86_64-8_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/libxml2-2.15.2-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libxml2-2.15.2-x86_64-1.txz
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 15.0 package:
5868328f253dc7040729ef0b057a429c libxml2-2.11.9-i586-8_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
7969553fbdf9ffdce4bfec2619ff38a6 libxml2-2.11.9-x86_64-8_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package:
a474110a92bac5d51ac8fb62c270b10d l/libxml2-2.15.2-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
484f22dfed7a7391119bd53bebf8480f l/libxml2-2.15.2-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libxml2-2.11.9-i586-8_slack15.0.txz
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