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Slackware 13.37: 2012-166-02 Critical Mozilla-Firefox Security Update

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Calendar Grey June 14, 2012
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Latest Mozilla Firefox releases for Slackware tackle critical vulnerabilities; upgrade now for improved security.
New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.37, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: 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 security issue update critical 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 13.37:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 13.37 package: f293e4f3583af23a32d1b22adfe12c2a mozilla-firefox-13.0-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: f52b465c5adc7491ab1895ea5f00dde4 mozilla-firefox-13.0-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware -current package: b2f93bdc87b3bfbd45626f11cc644db0 xap/mozilla-firefox-13.0-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: a859bfd9db83deee5a26d953429d07be xap/mozilla-firefox-13.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue update critical slackware mozilla-firefox

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-13.0-i486-1_slack13.37.txz