Debian 12.0: 2024-074-02 Moderate: Library Security Patch Released
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March 13, 2024
New expat 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/expat-2.6.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Prevent billion laughs attacks with isolated use of external parsers. For more information, see: https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/commit/1d50b80cf31de87750103656f6eb693746854aa8 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-28757 (* 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 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:
41fe8eed9237ced1ce28e63f76f8f1be expat-2.6.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
297e29e85be05ef6be978fdcf44de90a expat-2.6.2-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package:
9c1021caaebd2c18a900f3554352e47e l/expat-2.6.2-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
92d7494ad4a18e39ef69aa5f549dd6e3 l/expat-2.6.2-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg expat-2.6.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
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