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
0.005 Low
EPSS
Percentile
76.2%
New expat packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current
to fix a security issue.
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog:
patches/packages/expat-2.2.8-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded.
Fix heap overflow triggered by XML_GetCurrentLineNumber (or
XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber), and deny internal entities closing the doctype.
For more information, see:
https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2019-15903
(* 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/expat-2.2.8-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-2.2.8-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/expat-2.2.8-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-2.2.8-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/expat-2.2.8-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-2.2.8-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/expat-2.2.8-i586-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/l/expat-2.2.8-x86_64-1.txz
MD5 signatures:
Slackware 14.0 package:
5083c04afc9877a10abe5bd151b7236d expat-2.2.8-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
77efa3806a9ed98fddc044e8f0d25f1d expat-2.2.8-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
f68d41735c3cc218855491abe43b9755 expat-2.2.8-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
f9f9213aa7c70976a14676568ab414c8 expat-2.2.8-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package:
c7c7a2e1055d12fe2a8b5ff6be640c52 expat-2.2.8-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
00632a5b09d08316ee66fa63e4e23d27 expat-2.2.8-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package:
fc31f923d41d753d2681472fb3203a27 l/expat-2.2.8-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
51baab2bafea79c8b39f1d6a35db12b7 l/expat-2.2.8-x86_64-1.txz
Installation instructions:
Upgrade the package as root:
> upgradepkg expat-2.2.8-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
0.005 Low
EPSS
Percentile
76.2%