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[slackware-security]  libxml2 (SSA:2024-134-01)

New libxml2 packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to
fix a security issue.


Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog:
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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 *)
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Where to find the new packages:
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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://slackware.com for
additional mirror sites near you.

Updated package for Slackware 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/libxml2-2.11.8-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/libxml2-2.11.8-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/libxml2-2.12.7-i586-1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libxml2-2.12.7-x86_64-1.txz


MD5 signatures:
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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


Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg libxml2-2.11.8-i586-1_slack15.0.txz


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