Slackware: 2022-027-01 Moderate: Expat Integer Overflow Fix
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January 27, 2022
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-2.4.3-i586-3_slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt. Prevent integer overflow in doProlog. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-23990 (* Security fix *)
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! :-)
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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:
83ad43bedb960f951754cefce7bf6ec5 expat-2.4.3-i486-3_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
35256593bf5efc25125904b30fd71304 expat-2.4.3-x86_64-3_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
6a26bd66d2e68fcdee1bc917bab5dc52 expat-2.4.3-i486-3_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
6c73ea974f333b4b08a63308bbc16368 expat-2.4.3-x86_64-3_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package:
cc4973d5c4956e7a9ae4055648ca063b expat-2.4.3-i586-3_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
3ec0df6fa734670368f91d0ab2538d29 expat-2.4.3-x86_64-3_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package:
1040ce35ab452a49d02251ed654463b1 l/expat-2.4.3-i586-3.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
9fdb775e2bf314015578044b60dfe481 l/expat-2.4.3-x86_64-3.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg expat-2.4.3-i586-3_slack14.2.txz
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