news 28 Posted May 28, 2016 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] libxml2 (SSA:2016-148-01) New libxml2 packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/libxml2-2.9.4-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes bugs and security issues: Heap-based buffer underreads due to xmlParseName (CVE-2016-4447). Format string vulnerability (CVE-2016-4448). Inappropriate fetch of entities content (CVE-2016-4449). For more information, see: http://xmlsoft.org/news.html http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4447 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4448 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4449 (* 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 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/libxml2-2.9.4-i486-1_slack14.0.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/libxml2-2.9.4-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz Updated package for Slackware 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/libxml2-2.9.4-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/libxml2-2.9.4-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/libxml2-2.9.4-i586-1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/libxml2-2.9.4-x86_64-1.txz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 14.0 package: c498433ae7d6077a9d5245877aa2c06e libxml2-2.9.4-i486-1_slack14.0.txz Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: c92258a87bb30a6cdce2b5428d640bd5 libxml2-2.9.4-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz Slackware 14.1 package: 2b74b913a164a23ad2da10eebf923e46 libxml2-2.9.4-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: e2dee612c7de77822824e43a61414c2c libxml2-2.9.4-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz Slackware -current package: 98d1ede4a347a49f2ad972ac5339b9e6 l/libxml2-2.9.4-i586-1.txz Slackware x86_64 -current package: c2d5721aac77b74d7e47a2a8a372d47a l/libxml2-2.9.4-x86_64-1.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libxml2-2.9.4-i486-1_slack14.1.txz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security ( -at -) slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Share this post Link to post
