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Slackware: 2025-072-01: libxslt Security Advisory Update

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Calendar Grey March 13, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
New libxslt packages for Slackware 15.0 fix important security issues related to use-after-free vulnerabilities.
New libxslt 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/libxslt-1.1.43-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update addresses some security issues. Fix use-after-free of XPath context node. Fix UAF related to excluded namespaces. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-24855 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-55549 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical security fix package upgrade Slackware libxslt use-after-free

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/libxslt-1.1.43-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/libxslt-1.1.43-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/libxslt-1.1.43-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libxslt-1.1.43-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: f1d1d2e5486264bdb2a74a503b895778 libxslt-1.1.43-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 541444169a37a7b5a95a4eaab902cfca libxslt-1.1.43-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: eeac82872efa4ab96e496f8cdfdca5c3 l/libxslt-1.1.43-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: dc967349f714ec44bafee793def22bd5 l/libxslt-1.1.43-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical security fix package upgrade Slackware libxslt use-after-free

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libxslt-1.1.43-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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