Slackware 15.0 SSA:2024-134-02 Critical OpenSSL Buffer Issue
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May 13, 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/libxml2-2.11.8-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fix buffer overread with "xmllint --htmlout". xmllint: Fix --pedantic option. save: Handle invalid parent pointers in xhtmlNodeDumpOutput. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-34459 (* Security fix *)
Where Find New Packages
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(http://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:
6f72fb0725dd8f0fb3dcee35b24ad559 libxml2-2.11.8-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
eb6d83c6f30bc7d0ffe8749ba7851c27 libxml2-2.11.8-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package:
c13ca9dfdfa672ca72bb7e5e6ca3d542 l/libxml2-2.12.7-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
81787612139d7d7d72a21ffb9e3c0903 l/libxml2-2.12.7-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libxml2-2.11.8-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
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