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Slackware: SSA:2011-195-02 High: Firefox Security Update

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Calendar Grey July 15, 2011
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Latest Mozilla Firefox updates for Slackware address critical vulnerabilities. Enhance security and performance by upgrading today.
New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.0 and 13.1 to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-3.6.19-i686-1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.6/ (* Security fix *)

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:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 13.0 package: 309909b61a49053c4e12e213287c7f5b mozilla-firefox-3.6.19-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: bbad9abc9da5ee386a68bedb5c9a5796 mozilla-firefox-3.6.19-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: 4c3369ad77514cf4697b99a566ab0da1 mozilla-firefox-3.6.19-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: 2a4ab812cf3d6e8d18304b53dadde2c0 mozilla-firefox-3.6.19-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-3.6.19-i686-1.txz