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Slackware: 2005-269-01 Moderate: Mozilla and Firefox Security Fixes

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Calendar Grey September 26, 2005
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Updated releases for Slackware tackle various security flaws in Mozilla and Firefox. Upgrade now to enhance your protection.
New Mozilla and Firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues: MFSA 2005-59 Command-line handling on Linux allows shell executi...

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-1.7.12-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to mozilla-1.7.12. This fixes several security issues. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/ (* Security fix *) patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to firefox-1.0.7. This fixes several security issues. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/ (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate patch slackware mozilla firefox command line

Where Find New Packages

Updated packages for Slackware 10.0:
Updated packages for Slackware 10.1:
Updated packages for Slackware 10.2:
Updated packages for Slackware -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 10.0 packages: 8bbca8c241348f2060cb5c71ef7d3a8b mozilla-1.7.12-i486-1.tgz 63c32db43b1e3ccecfabe97f32318979 mozilla-plugins-1.7.12-noarch-1.tgz
Slackware 10.1 packages: 3833d18232b62f2d7d0b78d8fea10249 mozilla-1.7.12-i486-1.tgz 998fbcc346e13ae8570a0ad83184ff7f mozilla-plugins-1.7.12-noarch-1.tgz
Slackware 10.2 packages: 8fb3f0d476d75223144bfd178de25ca5 mozilla-1.7.12-i486-1.tgz af968dc3ce8c64a63f7327c47584a95b mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-i686-1.tgz
Slackware -current packages: 8fb3f0d476d75223144bfd178de25ca5 mozilla-1.7.12-i486-1.tgz af968dc3ce8c64a63f7327c47584a95b mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-i686-1.tgz

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate patch slackware mozilla firefox command line

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-1.7.12-i486-1.tgz mozilla-plugins-1.7.12-noarch-1.tgz Or, for 10.2 and -current: # upgradepkg mozilla-1.7.12-i486-1.tgz mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-i686-1.tgz