Libxslt security upgrade
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Security
New libxslt package is available for VL 5.9 to fix a security issue.
More details about the issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1767
Quote from: http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.363199 A buffer overflow when processing XSL stylesheets could result in the execution of arbitrary code. For more information, see: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1767 libxslt (XML transformation library) XSLT support for libxml2. (XSLT is a language used for transforming XML documents)
