Slackware: SSA:2021-136-02 Important: openssl Security Vulnerability
slackware
May 15, 2021
New libxml2 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/libxml2-2.9.12-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a denial-of-service security issue. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3541 (* Security fix *)
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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 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:
3e2093b322813871a187fb316e513bd5 libxml2-2.9.12-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
0f5fa828de15a11e5505cc816cfd6559 libxml2-2.9.12-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
bb1d1330405d725f5bfed7b7702e9be7 libxml2-2.9.12-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
6e97a34ffff706fbc5f91f53fbe52870 libxml2-2.9.12-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package:
5416577b62b07a7f195dc1036b3d99df libxml2-2.9.12-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
bc64d12a5c2b4922925d529f295bc795 libxml2-2.9.12-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package:
9b80c20a53578db72137e1dd7ba2da1f l/libxml2-2.9.12-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
24147c57887076d77cc07a6eca640031 l/libxml2-2.9.12-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libxml2-2.9.12-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
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