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Slackware 15.0 Critical Update: Expat Denial Of Service Fix

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Calendar Grey February 7, 2024
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Latest updates for Arch Linux address vulnerabilities in recent packages. Discover essential patches and enhancements.
New expat packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/expat-2.6.0-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Fix quadratic runtime issues with big tokens that can cause denial of service. Fix billion laughs attacks for users compiling *without* XML_DTD defined (which is not common). For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52425 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52426 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical fix slackware expat runtime issue

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: 5fc9ee070934b620f18f25589161af50 expat-2.6.0-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 4d154e83a4c7aa16e9ec3b13883d0541 expat-2.6.0-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 0a52eddf970a67cde7db5c3e0b22936a l/expat-2.6.0-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: ff61e2750bcbb0ac9255f48be240dd8d l/expat-2.6.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical fix slackware expat runtime issue

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg expat-2.6.0-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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