news 28 Posted December 24, 2016 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] expat (SSA:2016-359-01) New expat packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/expat-2.2.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues: Multiple integer overflows in XML_GetBuffer. Fix crash on malformed input. Improve insufficient fix to CVE-2015-1283 / CVE-2015-2716. Use more entropy for hash initialization. Resolve troublesome internal call to srand. For more information, see: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1283 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-0718 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4472 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5300 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6702 (* 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 13.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.0/patches/packages/expat-2.2.0-i486-1_slack13.0.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.0/patches/packages/expat-2.2.0-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz Updated package for Slackware 13.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/patches/packages/expat-2.2.0-i486-1_slack13.1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.1/patches/packages/expat-2.2.0-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz Updated package for Slackware 13.37: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.37/patches/packages/expat-2.2.0-i486-1_slack13.37.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.37/patches/packages/expat-2.2.0-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz Updated package for Slackware 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/expat-2.2.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/expat-2.2.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz Updated package for Slackware 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/expat-2.2.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/expat-2.2.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz Updated package for Slackware 14.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/expat-2.2.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/expat-2.2.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/expat-2.2.0-i586-1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/expat-2.2.0-x86_64-1.txz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 13.0 package: d042603604cda3dedb7a75cb049071c8 expat-2.2.0-i486-1_slack13.0.txz Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 4c57af80cc3ccd277a365f8053dabd9b expat-2.2.0-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz Slackware 13.1 package: 649682e89895159e90c0775f056a5b2a expat-2.2.0-i486-1_slack13.1.txz Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: dc109e48fb07db4aa47caa912308dcee expat-2.2.0-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz Slackware 13.37 package: a7893a356510073d213e08e6df41be6b expat-2.2.0-i486-1_slack13.37.txz Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 31f42e6ef7be259413659497f473b499 expat-2.2.0-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz Slackware 14.0 package: 3d5ab68ef82db833aa1b890372dfa789 expat-2.2.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 7ab4d2d05f4695904a4e164f6093ea38 expat-2.2.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz Slackware 14.1 package: 3e9c111a338efb49ed9aa85322e7dfed expat-2.2.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 5ec656840cad0813deeb632ef659d97b expat-2.2.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz Slackware 14.2 package: 770d5c370a923d7f1356bc81ceaaa3e9 expat-2.2.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 0b44169d48b17e181cddd25c547a0258 expat-2.2.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz Slackware -current package: bc2d54deb510e5a41845207133fc1a75 l/expat-2.2.0-i586-1.txz Slackware x86_64 -current package: 4bf858ad9d41159ce9fe624e47d58f21 l/expat-2.2.0-x86_64-1.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg expat-2.2.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security ( -at -) slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Share this post Link to post
