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Debian 11.x-12.x: 2022-123-02 High: Curl Vulnerability Patch

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Calendar Grey May 2, 2022
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Important security update for Libxml2 rolled out for Slackware, rectifying vulnerabilities related to memory corruption and buffer overflows among various concerns.
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/libxml2-2.9.14-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and the following security issues: Fix integer overflow in xmlBuf and xmlBuffer. Fix potential double-free in xmlXPtrStringRangeFunction. Fix memory leak in xmlFindCharEncodingHandler. Normalize XPath strings in-place. Prevent integer-overflow in htmlSkipBlankChars() and xmlSkipBlankChars(). Fix leak of xmlElementContent. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-29824 (* 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: 972cd393346a31e87c428fd16c77a40d libxml2-2.9.14-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: e021eb84d5886f98455d1d3c9c7ce015 libxml2-2.9.14-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: b99385384f0836871de0de269bfcf0f5 libxml2-2.9.14-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: f02febc97f7e934ab1630d75da59c9bc libxml2-2.9.14-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: e27f7944f9dd271e622e4d1049b0098a libxml2-2.9.14-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 7b4041292d687a0a1d757613750e33e3 libxml2-2.9.14-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware 15.0 package: ada5b3afa71dbbecab6930178c21de00 libxml2-2.9.14-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: b456fb74f5cb802755b6aa089bd63c7e libxml2-2.9.14-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 488a06aa77c5c2443dbee7ba533c5073 l/libxml2-2.9.14-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 62d835e8b7821a0ba897cbe926288c0a l/libxml2-2.9.14-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libxml2-2.9.14-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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