Slackware alert SSA:2025-073-01 (expat)

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[slackware-security]  expat (SSA:2025-073-01)
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Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:02:01 -0700
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[slackware-security]  expat (SSA:2025-073-01)

New expat packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to
fix a security issue.


Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog:
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patches/packages/expat-2.7.0-i586-1_slack15.0.txz:  Upgraded.
  This update addresses a security issue:
  Fix crash from chaining a large number of entities caused by stack overflow
  by resolving use of recursion, for all three uses of entities:
    general entities in character data
    general entities in attribute values
    parameter entities
  Known impact is (reliable and easy) denial of service.
  Please note that a layer of compression around XML can significantly reduce
  the minimum attack payload.
  For more information, see:
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8176
  (* 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 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patc...

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/pa...

Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/s...

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current...


MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 15.0 package:
f15f558aeca71b39a1af24e0f9c0e49c  expat-2.7.0-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
d227ae7389aba2c06d9586e32e320de1  expat-2.7.0-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

Slackware -current package:
9eae2f9ee45ab30f3702ce14085196b4  l/expat-2.7.0-i686-1.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
45d027ad6708a4aebec4df703d69ae83  l/expat-2.7.0-x86_64-1.txz


Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg expat-2.7.0-i586-1_slack15.0.txz


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