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Slackware 15.0 expat Critical Fix SSA:2025-268-01 CVE-2025-59375

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Calendar Grey September 25, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates for Expat in Foresight address vital security vulnerabilities impacting various platforms. Users are urged to apply the latest patches.
New expat packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/expat-2.7.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fix alignment of internal allocations for some non-amd64 architectures (e.g. sparc32); fixes up on the fix to CVE-2025-59375 from #1034 (of Expat 2.7.2 and related backports). For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-59375 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue critical slackware expat

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/expat-2.7.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/expat-2.7.3-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/expat-2.7.3-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/expat-2.7.3-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 231a024ea0489f015476112db053bcb9 expat-2.7.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 04b53f66c72fac203e0f5a1424a75278 expat-2.7.3-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: c5debabd97036957013c9d140b74bb15 l/expat-2.7.3-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: f7edb867be1e35de5460cf15ec1b7385 l/expat-2.7.3-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue critical slackware expat

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg expat-2.7.3-i586-1_slack15.0.txz