Slackware 15.0: 2024-035-01 Critical: Libxml2 Upgrade Available
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February 4, 2024
New libxml2 packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libxml2-2.11.7-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fix the following security issue: xmlreader: Don't expand XIncludes when backtracking. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-25062 (* Security fix *)
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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 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 15.0 package:
62a4fe8efaa414b80d9ed26e328512d9 libxml2-2.11.7-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
7f95acd6df018ee2407c2648e43265dc libxml2-2.11.7-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package:
a8bb1185c13a7a2c0ce44808a65eb2d5 l/libxml2-2.12.5-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
5b38dd33b4986251180ac7ce051d31b6 l/libxml2-2.12.5-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libxml2-2.11.7-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
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