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Slackware 14.0: 2021-143-01 Moderate: Expat Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey May 23, 2021
Dist Slackware Esm H88
New security patch released for Slackware 14.0 to -current, mitigating service disruption vulnerabilities with updated software packages.
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-2.4.1-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update provides new mitigations against the "billion laughs" denial of service attack. For more information, see: https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_4_1/expat/Changes https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-0340 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update moderate severity slackware expat

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: 1380289fd84bf1953cebdda9bd210c3d expat-2.4.1-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 9d054e8ea825f037a2cdf20cb56c21bb expat-2.4.1-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 7a245716339bc04c21b6ecc55b44e63d expat-2.4.1-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 21a6c8f7663cf02acc05f7da90daa93e expat-2.4.1-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: 89e9c52f2528af96c4ec42982c53765a expat-2.4.1-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 760cfb8ea7e0cc39fa80b3941a38e98d expat-2.4.1-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 5e0aac7b641db5683fe5c43ec918d049 l/expat-2.4.1-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: c0b118942c1cab5308a061b5043a51db l/expat-2.4.1-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update moderate severity slackware expat

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg expat-2.4.1-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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