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Slackware: 2012-283-01 Critical: Firefox Security Issue Update

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Calendar Grey October 10, 2012
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Slackware users, an essential update for Mozilla Firefox is available to fix important security vulnerabilities. Update your browser for enhanced protection
New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-16.0-i486-1_slack14.0.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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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 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 13.37 package: 29bb11fb476a0deba095a52fa404d21a mozilla-firefox-16.0-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 4e519807dfc0f3e1624a5580ea9991d4 mozilla-firefox-16.0-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package: 93783de27aad6a10d7bd4432df90eee2 mozilla-firefox-16.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: dd98523d46b575f31f600fd81657caf8 mozilla-firefox-16.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 810e5194f8f22883670c72b35ae2a23e xap/mozilla-firefox-16.0-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 13d830a035d24d53dd14196fc3380250 xap/mozilla-firefox-16.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-16.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz