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Slackware 15.0: 2025-108-01 critical: libxml2 heap buffer overflow

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Calendar Grey April 18, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated libxml2 versions for Slackware tackle significant vulnerabilities to maintain system protection and stability.
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-i586-3_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes security issues: schemas: Fix heap buffer overflow in xmlSchemaIDCFillNodeTables. python: Read at most len/4 characters. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-32415 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-32414 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update patch Slackware libxml2 heap buffer

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-i586-3_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_64-3_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/libxml2-2.13.8-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libxml2-2.13.8-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: ca3addf4562fbec5a6dec74cd8e18877 libxml2-2.11.9-i586-3_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: f6077c429ba0bc6ad4196197e1c61cf4 libxml2-2.11.9-x86_64-3_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 3cd7880c07b1113f73f5a2151b240271 l/libxml2-2.13.8-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 5123acee55c9643b28b0bc19d016c6dd l/libxml2-2.13.8-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update patch Slackware libxml2 heap buffer

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libxml2-2.11.9-i586-3_slack15.0.txz

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