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Slackware 13.37 SSA:2012-200-04 Critical: Seamonkey Security Issue

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Calendar Grey July 18, 2012
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Recent SeaMonkey updates released for Slackware to tackle significant security vulnerabilities and improve overall system reliability.
New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 13.37 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 13.37 ChangeLog: patches/packages/seamonkey-2.11-i486-1_slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey/ (* Security fix *) patches/packages/seamonkey-solibs-2.11-i486-1_slack13.37.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey/ (* Security fix *)

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security advisory security issue critical software update security fix slackware seamonkey

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 packages for Slackware 13.37:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 13.37:
Updated packages for Slackware -current:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 13.37 packages: 2185eb0ef0258b9abcdfe95f47ac1b36 seamonkey-2.11-i486-1_slack13.37.txz 2ada7be8bab35f9bdf7a6fe0fc96efbc seamonkey-solibs-2.11-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 packages: 420d5f59c9c9a7243043056380005282 seamonkey-2.11-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz e89be241dfe39bb4f08cf80dc059b3d9 seamonkey-solibs-2.11-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware -current packages: d105c51cf63ba597dc6b18ff2f614d5d l/seamonkey-solibs-2.11-i486-1.txz 3ee44efc52e3d60136af3e8098afd3b7 xap/seamonkey-2.11-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: 8528adf0aea1118a36429bfc7f9f959f l/seamonkey-solibs-2.11-x86_64-1.txz ea6646412eb1193345c25b94b82d653f xap/seamonkey-2.11-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg seamonkey-2.11-i486-1_slack13.37.txz seamonkey-solibs-2.11-i486-1_slack13.37.txz