Overly broad permissions can turn one compromised account into a much larger security problem. Learn how to reduce unnecessary access, review privileges, and apply least privilege across modern Linux systems. Review Linux Privileges×

Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 481
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 481

Slackware 11.0: 2006-313-01 Critical: Firefox and Thunderbird Security

slackware
Calendar Grey November 10, 2006
Scroller Slackware
Updates for Firefox and Thunderbird are now available for Slackware versions 10.2 and 11.0, targeting essential security vulnerabilities. Proceed with the upgrade immediately.
New Firefox and Thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and 11.0 to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.8-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to firefox-1.5.0.8. This upgrade fixes several possible security bugs. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/ (* Security fix *) patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.8-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to thunderbird-1.5.0.8. This upgrade fixes several possible security bugs. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/ (* Security fix *) patches/packages/seamonkey-1.0.6-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz: Upgraded to seamonkey-1.0.6. This upgrade fixes several possible security bugs. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/ (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical security fix slackware firefox seamonkey thunderbird

Where Find New Packages

HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading from ftp.slackware.com.
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated packages for Slackware 10.2:
Updated packages for Slackware 11.0:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 10.2 packages: 893ce2650fb5943688b6601dc487ab8c mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.8-i686-1.tgz bb30824cef92f3d19268978f616f0835 mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.8-i686-1.tgz
Slackware 11.0 packages: 893ce2650fb5943688b6601dc487ab8c mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.8-i686-1.tgz bb30824cef92f3d19268978f616f0835 mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.8-i686-1.tgz 54ef9d50b6cfca3db58c397cbea7ac49 seamonkey-1.0.6-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical security fix slackware firefox seamonkey thunderbird

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.8-i686-1.tgz mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.8-i686-1.tgz And for Slackware 11.0: # upgradepkg seamonkey-1.0.6-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz