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Slackware 15.0 SSA:2025-050-01 moderate: Libxml2 buffer overflow

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Calendar Grey February 19, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated libxml2 distributions are now available for Slackware 15.0 and -current, addressing critical security flaws and potential buffer overflow risks.
New libxml2 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/libxml2-2.11.9-i586-2_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes security issues: Fix stack-buffer-overflow in xmlSnprintfElements. Fix use-after-free after xmlSchemaItemListAdd. pattern: Fix compilation of explicit child axis. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-24928 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56171 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update buffer overflow security fix patch slackware Slackware libxml2

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: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/libxml2-2.11.9-i586-2_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/libxml2-2.11.9-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/libxml2-2.13.6-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libxml2-2.13.6-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: f1f3b5b4df04e22ae6449e9fa004157a libxml2-2.11.9-i586-2_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 48fe3dfdd5572e51b607989298041b51 libxml2-2.11.9-x86_64-2_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: ad3e493267228d86a78e03e82d8e3be4 l/libxml2-2.13.6-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: be10dee4e33eeb89e70d188c62194c4b l/libxml2-2.13.6-x86_64-1.txz

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update buffer overflow security fix patch slackware Slackware libxml2

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libxml2-2.11.9-i586-2_slack15.0.txz

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