Slackware 14.2: 2019-259-01 Critical: Expat Heap Overflow Fix
slackware
September 16, 2019
New expat packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/expat-2.2.8-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fix heap overflow triggered by XML_GetCurrentLineNumber (or XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber), and deny internal entities closing the doctype. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-15903 (* Security fix *)
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Where Find New Packages
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
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to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for
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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 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 14.0 package:
5083c04afc9877a10abe5bd151b7236d expat-2.2.8-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
77efa3806a9ed98fddc044e8f0d25f1d expat-2.2.8-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
f68d41735c3cc218855491abe43b9755 expat-2.2.8-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
f9f9213aa7c70976a14676568ab414c8 expat-2.2.8-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package:
c7c7a2e1055d12fe2a8b5ff6be640c52 expat-2.2.8-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
00632a5b09d08316ee66fa63e4e23d27 expat-2.2.8-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package:
fc31f923d41d753d2681472fb3203a27 l/expat-2.2.8-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
51baab2bafea79c8b39f1d6a35db12b7 l/expat-2.2.8-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg expat-2.2.8-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
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