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Slackware 14.1: 2016-148-02 Critical Libxslt Type Confusion Fix

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Calendar Grey May 27, 2016
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent libxslt updates address a critical vulnerability affecting Slackware versions 14.0, 14.1, and the current release. These updates come with comprehensive security details.
New libxslt packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libxslt-1.1.29-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes bugs and a security issue: Fix for type confusion in preprocessing attributes (Daniel Veillard). For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7995 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical package update slackware libxslt type confusion

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://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 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.0 package: 9e81aeb7a44f515dc0d0053395faffea libxslt-1.1.29-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: c1186870f78d1c71eed0cb10effd561a libxslt-1.1.29-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 847723b4e9f68c2a2a97869734b4c7c0 libxslt-1.1.29-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 79eed20e9211c68e94c383e929cc6aa0 libxslt-1.1.29-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: 40b33089887fe7c5827d6bf901e1cdbf l/libxslt-1.1.29-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 088186d11e38075de6e018f8ae6f7471 l/libxslt-1.1.29-x86_64-1.txz

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security advisory security issue critical package update slackware libxslt type confusion

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libxslt-1.1.29-i486-1_slack14.1.txz

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