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From: Slackware Security Team <security@slackware.com>
To: slackware-security@slackware.com
Subject: [slackware-security] expat (SSA:2016-359-01)
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 11:24:21 -0800 (PST)
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[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


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