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Slackware: 2005-135-01 Moderate: Mozilla Firefox Threat Update

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Calendar Grey May 16, 2005
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New Mozilla packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix various security issues and bugs

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 10.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-plugins-1.7.8-noarch-1.tgz: Upgraded Java(TM) symlink for Mozilla. patches/packages/mozilla-1.7.8-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to mozilla-1.7.8. Two vulnerabilities found in Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 when combined allow an attacker to run arbitrary code. The Mozilla Suite version 1.7.7 is only partially vulnerable. For more details, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2005-42/ (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

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Where Find New Packages

Updated packages for Slackware 10.0:
Updated packages for Slackware 10.1:
Updated packages for Slackware -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 10.0 packages: fa412bdee8c1f1971f710c87e9a6fc94 mozilla-1.7.8-i486-1.tgz a70a4e7e5c0e7e3bf916eebfb25a4e99 mozilla-plugins-1.7.8-noarch-1.tgz
Slackware 10.1 packages: e3c9c5acdd01db0cda3f73e7bea1e4ad mozilla-1.7.8-i486-1.tgz 12df49ed6bab71e4ad8ec27781477609 mozilla-plugins-1.7.8-noarch-1.tgz
Slackware -current packages: 40f9f9f2c048dede809698042b801784 jre-symlink-1.0.4-noarch-1.tgz e510ab3d049bc31877e49efa7dcb668c mozilla-1.7.8-i486-1.tgz e62f390e7f4fdc1d46352fbb90a7580c mozilla-firefox-1.0.4-i686-1.tgz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-1.7.8-i486-1.tgz mozilla-plugins-1.7.8-noarch-1.tgz