7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
69.4%
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-2.2.2-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded.
Fixes security issues including:
External entity infinite loop DoS
For more information, see:
https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2017-9233
https://libexpat.github.io/doc/cve-2017-9233/
(* 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-2.2.2-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-2.2.2-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware 13.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/patches/packages/expat-2.2.2-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-2.2.2-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware 13.37:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.37/patches/packages/expat-2.2.2-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-2.2.2-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/expat-2.2.2-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-2.2.2-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/expat-2.2.2-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-2.2.2-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/expat-2.2.2-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-2.2.2-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/expat-2.2.2-i586-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/expat-2.2.2-x86_64-1.txz
MD5 signatures:
Slackware 13.0 package:
7f9f98e2fbfdb2d7e92d2a74767f379b expat-2.2.2-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package:
ad390855001c2a32e8a01b1021ee0402 expat-2.2.2-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package:
aa73dc57c604e1b6c788c599b80561f0 expat-2.2.2-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package:
ab9dfe8b2afeb19b29f8e42f045b5284 expat-2.2.2-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package:
c2e3ca3e858afcd4ee5da8cb5c43d8eb expat-2.2.2-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package:
6e96f6eeec6c60d7b4215280cec27560 expat-2.2.2-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package:
afbae121e3ad167426ee9965e876e67b expat-2.2.2-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
edbbcbe637294edbeefe7e2697bd2fb1 expat-2.2.2-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
8b24088cba47ee63104354dbdb84e504 expat-2.2.2-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
45ce0de8ae651851826e509ba0c490e3 expat-2.2.2-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package:
f8c21c6bd6c0503ac90ccfdc932bec05 expat-2.2.2-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
c2237eb21e2c700d4582bfcca7908cbd expat-2.2.2-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package:
0abebd7b1a8294d4a8cb4f4373576fec l/expat-2.2.2-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
fa3206d73e042332ea4e7950525cc4f6 l/expat-2.2.2-x86_64-1.txz
Installation instructions:
Upgrade the package as root:
> upgradepkg expat-2.2.2-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
69.4%