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Slackware 13.0-13.37: Security Advisory for Mozilla-Firefox

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Calendar Grey June 24, 2011
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Slackware enhancements for mozilla-thunderbird address major vulnerabilities, boosting comprehensive safety against dangers.
New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-5.0-i486-1_slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox/ (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical security fix threat slackware mozilla-firefox

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating 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 package for Slackware 13.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0:
Updated package for Slackware 13.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1:
Updated package for Slackware 13.37:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 13.0 package: 6bae11a48ff0dbd131535523da47dfa3 mozilla-firefox-3.6.18-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 9c6b5b65cb74692f8e51e92a9af1b174 mozilla-firefox-3.6.18-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: 5de7a771024cf248144cc84bf22e6c0b mozilla-firefox-3.6.18-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: 9868ece365ad9c8fb88492e98124e989 mozilla-firefox-3.6.18-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package: 0f44d12d4cab622f99c20025090cc344 mozilla-firefox-5.0-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: cd7eb8f9e363e10026b1ecfa88a927b1 mozilla-firefox-5.0-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware -current package: 082655c72f19e52b4d6b97881d3b4388 xap/mozilla-firefox-5.0-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: a9dd701bf34e6141b386530ad38d4292 xap/mozilla-firefox-5.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical security fix threat slackware mozilla-firefox

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-5.0-i486-1_slack13.37.txz