Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 923
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 923

Slackware 15.0: libxslt Critical Patch Type Confusion SSA:2025-332-01

slackware
Calendar Grey November 28, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
New libxslt packages released for Slackware to address critical security issues impacting the software's reliability.
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-1.1.44-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update addresses some security issues: [CVE-2025-9714] Fix: Was a false positive, closed issue #148. [CVE-2025-7424] Fix: Type confusion in xmlNode.psvi between stylesheet and source nodes (Fixed by Apple's engineers). [CVE-2025-11731] Fix: End function node ancestor search at document. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-9714 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-7424 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11731 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical slackware libxslt type confusion

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-1.1.44-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-1.1.44-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/libxslt-1.1.44-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libxslt-1.1.44-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 8abf8a48a417ec60e70552da491e8ecd libxslt-1.1.44-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 568942671157ac9e18b1f8d56bb68424 libxslt-1.1.44-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 07805540c808ddcbaa08e762030df019 l/libxslt-1.1.44-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 0c5fbdc62e0eed628272474a20e59828 l/libxslt-1.1.44-x86_64-1.txz

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical slackware libxslt type confusion

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 libxslt-1.1.44-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

Your message here