Explore top 10 tips to secure your open-source projects now. Read More

×
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 439
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 439

Slackware: libxml2 Important Security Update 2025-196-02 - Multiple Issues

slackware
Calendar Grey July 16, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent libxml2 updates address critical vulnerabilities for Slackware 15.0. Please upgrade promptly to maintain system security and stability.
New libxml2 packages are available for Slackware 15.0 to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libxml2-2.11.9-i586-6_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Recompiled with the missing security patches. Thanks to bigbadaboum for spotting this. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-49794 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-49796 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-49795 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-6170 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue patch important 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-i586-6_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_64-6_slack15.0.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 5664672ac2b6d4b65db6a6640799374d libxml2-2.11.9-i586-6_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 10f227929842ab2ac6a99d3dcfd2b556 libxml2-2.11.9-x86_64-6_slack15.0.txz

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue patch important slackware libxml2

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libxml2-2.11.9-i586-6_slack15.0.txz