An expat security update has been released for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current.

slackware-security: expat (SSA:2022-027-01)

[slackware-security] expat (SSA:2022-027-01)

New expat packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current
to fix a security issue.

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog:
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patches/packages/expat-2.4.3-i586-3_slack14.2.txz: Rebuilt.
Prevent integer overflow in doProlog.
For more information, see:
  https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-23990
(* Security fix *)
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Where to find the new packages:
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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://slackware.com for
additional mirror sites near you.

Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/expat-2.4.3-i486-3_slack14.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/expat-2.4.3-x86_64-3_slack14.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/expat-2.4.3-i486-3_slack14.1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/expat-2.4.3-x86_64-3_slack14.1.txz

Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/expat-2.4.3-i586-3_slack14.2.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/expat-2.4.3-x86_64-3_slack14.2.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/expat-2.4.3-i586-3.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
  ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/expat-2.4.3-x86_64-3.txz

MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 14.0 package:
83ad43bedb960f951754cefce7bf6ec5 expat-2.4.3-i486-3_slack14.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
35256593bf5efc25125904b30fd71304 expat-2.4.3-x86_64-3_slack14.0.txz

Slackware 14.1 package:
6a26bd66d2e68fcdee1bc917bab5dc52 expat-2.4.3-i486-3_slack14.1.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
6c73ea974f333b4b08a63308bbc16368 expat-2.4.3-x86_64-3_slack14.1.txz

Slackware 14.2 package:
cc4973d5c4956e7a9ae4055648ca063b expat-2.4.3-i586-3_slack14.2.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
3ec0df6fa734670368f91d0ab2538d29 expat-2.4.3-x86_64-3_slack14.2.txz

Slackware -current package:
1040ce35ab452a49d02251ed654463b1 l/expat-2.4.3-i586-3.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
9fdb775e2bf314015578044b60dfe481 l/expat-2.4.3-x86_64-3.txz

Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg expat-2.4.3-i586-3_slack14.2.txz