Slackware 15.0: 2023-343-01 critical: libxml2 integer overflow
slackware
December 10, 2023
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/libxml2-2.12.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Add --sysconfdir=/etc option so that this can find the xml catalog. Thanks to SpiderTux. Fix the following security issues: Fix integer overflows with XML_PARSE_HUGE. Fix dict corruption caused by entity reference cycles. Hashing of empty dict strings isn't deterministic. Fix null deref in xmlSchemaFixupComplexType. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-40303 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-40304 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-29469 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-28484 (* Security fix *)
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Where Find New Packages
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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 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:
781670f0524d4980ef7b48876fc07b35 libxml2-2.12.2-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
6e5084f495e8401e097d49bec5d470d0 libxml2-2.12.2-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
1e3a912ba24a2ee014b239ed03302260 libxml2-2.12.2-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
6e0bbf965cca0038a13f6f5faaac690d libxml2-2.12.2-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package:
7f11d69e862d4d42407bf9fbc8b134a8 libxml2-2.12.2-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
8f06b46fdf685dedd2d56400503e80b6 libxml2-2.12.2-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware 15.0 package:
936f1e6831a94df80e926e173505ad17 libxml2-2.12.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
5691184f8e0b89b5fb4344e9d4b4f732 libxml2-2.12.2-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package:
bfa544daff81a3f89e44dd9f1f6b997e l/libxml2-2.12.2-i586-2.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
e866ccd932b516f53cc5cf3c30e1c70a l/libxml2-2.12.2-x86_64-2.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libxml2-2.12.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
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