A libxml2 security update has been released for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 15.0, and -current.
slackware-security: libxml2 (SSA:2022-059-01)
[slackware-security] libxml2 (SSA:2022-059-01)
New libxml2 packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 15.0,
and -current to fix security issues.
Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog:
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patches/packages/libxml2-2.9.13-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes bugs and the following security issues:
Use-after-free of ID and IDREF attributes
(Thanks to Shinji Sato for the report)
Use-after-free in xmlXIncludeCopyRange (David Kilzer)
Fix Null-deref-in-xmlSchemaGetComponentTargetNs (huangduirong)
Fix memory leak in xmlXPathCompNodeTest
Fix null pointer deref in xmlStringGetNodeList
Fix several memory leaks found by Coverity (David King)
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-23308
(* 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/libxml2-2.9.13-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/libxml2-2.9.13-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/libxml2-2.9.13-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/libxml2-2.9.13-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/libxml2-2.9.13-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/libxml2-2.9.13-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/libxml2-2.9.13-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/libxml2-2.9.13-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/libxml2-2.9.13-i586-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libxml2-2.9.13-x86_64-1.txz
MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 14.0 package:
889493500cae59856e974769aad5cacd libxml2-2.9.13-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
69bd45c994ccca1449264142808a9281 libxml2-2.9.13-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
3044c808e30600d32a0f0995b201b72b libxml2-2.9.13-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
960fae9906a6d5bc39eff393f9d34f07 libxml2-2.9.13-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package:
c0158c620e67597a059254f029b89f95 libxml2-2.9.13-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
42310887af04b0c4a41d6ac1058b55ea libxml2-2.9.13-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware 15.0 package:
edb73cc40d01801e0983698f517338b6 libxml2-2.9.13-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
0bbced56311b6ccf66461752ea249d52 libxml2-2.9.13-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package:
00849e22225c74466add9933bc36a3ae l/libxml2-2.9.13-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
8074609ef54039cc832da702bdeb660e l/libxml2-2.9.13-x86_64-1.txz
Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg libxml2-2.9.13-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
