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Slackware: 2022-050-01 Critical: Expat DoS Threat Update

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Calendar Grey February 20, 2022
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Revised offshore bundles introduced for Gentoo to tackle urgent vulnerability concerns and boost system defense.
New expat packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/expat-2.4.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed security issues that could lead to denial of service or potentially arbitrary code execution. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-25235 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-25236 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-25313 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-25314 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-25315 (* 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! :-)
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 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.0 package: 5245e937e1b09f5c01e059a043de4569 expat-2.4.3-i486-4_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 184df1cb5667dc43d6227865761351dd expat-2.4.3-x86_64-4_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 1f34f5935af855e2ab34cdef8179e04b expat-2.4.3-i486-4_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: da9e899bf23d0615895216ef68d09885 expat-2.4.3-x86_64-4_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: 36e476f5cd9000e72385e17c343228ce expat-2.4.3-i586-4_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 9f97b8059a5700b6a827ba77c9b09f6e expat-2.4.3-x86_64-4_slack14.2.txz
Slackware 15.0 package: 0850bef78dfe3f1b98ceb13632ffd7d3 expat-2.4.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 4ce2826bf0ec9aeedb1c1639867e24ec expat-2.4.5-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 43c3c0db90250716162196764ac55d39 l/expat-2.4.5-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: ae1dabd546c1e3d1370a1921b5e38afd l/expat-2.4.5-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg expat-2.4.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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