Slackware alert SSA:2024-073-01 (expat)
| From: | Slackware Security Team <security@slackware.com> | |
| To: | slackware-security@slackware.com | |
| Subject: | [slackware-security] expat (SSA:2024-073-01) | |
| Date: | Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:51:59 -0700 | |
| Message-ID: | <alpine.LNX.2.02.2403131251420.2216@connie.slackware.com> |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] expat (SSA:2024-073-01) 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: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/expat-2.6.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Prevent billion laughs attacks with isolated use of external parsers. For more information, see: https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/commit/1d50b80cf31de... https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-28757 (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the 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://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: +-------------+ Slackware 15.0 package: 41fe8eed9237ced1ce28e63f76f8f1be expat-2.6.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 297e29e85be05ef6be978fdcf44de90a expat-2.6.2-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz Slackware -current package: 9c1021caaebd2c18a900f3554352e47e l/expat-2.6.2-i586-1.txz Slackware x86_64 -current package: 92d7494ad4a18e39ef69aa5f549dd6e3 l/expat-2.6.2-x86_64-1.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg expat-2.6.2-i586-1_slack15.0.txz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security@slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | To leave the slackware-security mailing list: | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Send an email to majordomo@slackware.com with this text in the body of | | the email message: | | | | unsubscribe slackware-security | | | | You will get a confirmation message back containing instructions to | | complete the process. Please do not reply to this email address. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQTsVknaQB4iq/pnNu9qRGPAQBAiMwUCZfIC3wAKCRBqRGPAQBAi MwRnAJsH2nZlECSZsrlgaE9IsrPn5J0mGgCeIMy206t9X6LnpJmeCBedCuP6Fgs= =ulKh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----