Slackware: 2022-059-01 Critical Update for Libxml2 Memory Issues
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March 1, 2022
New libxml2 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/libxml2-2.9.13-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and the following security issues: Use-after-free of ID and IDREF attributes (Thanks to Shinji Sato for the report) Use-after-free in xmlXIncludeCopyRange (David Kilzer) Fix Null-deref-in-xmlSchemaGetComponentTargetNs (huangduirong) Fix memory leak in xmlXPathCompNodeTest Fix null pointer deref in xmlStringGetNodeList Fix several memory leaks found by Coverity (David King) For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-23308 (* 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:
889493500cae59856e974769aad5cacd libxml2-2.9.13-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
69bd45c994ccca1449264142808a9281 libxml2-2.9.13-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
3044c808e30600d32a0f0995b201b72b libxml2-2.9.13-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
960fae9906a6d5bc39eff393f9d34f07 libxml2-2.9.13-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package:
c0158c620e67597a059254f029b89f95 libxml2-2.9.13-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
42310887af04b0c4a41d6ac1058b55ea libxml2-2.9.13-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware 15.0 package:
edb73cc40d01801e0983698f517338b6 libxml2-2.9.13-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
0bbced56311b6ccf66461752ea249d52 libxml2-2.9.13-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package:
00849e22225c74466add9933bc36a3ae l/libxml2-2.9.13-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
8074609ef54039cc832da702bdeb660e l/libxml2-2.9.13-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libxml2-2.9.13-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
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