Slackware 14.0: SSA:2012-285-01 Critical: Mozilla-Firefox Access Issue
slackware
October 11, 2012
New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-16.0.1-i486-1_slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security vulnerability that could allow a malicious site to potentially determine which websites users have visited and have access to the URL or URL parameters. (* 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 13.37:
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:
5fa123d865c33cf294be0c5da21ac588 mozilla-firefox-16.0.1-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package:
857b084677b01c56ddefa122dd64f083 mozilla-firefox-16.0.1-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package:
5735b7d5eaffefd33624a99254a71cd7 mozilla-firefox-16.0.1-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
8ee6e9763f4b295610e8dcb55b74812a mozilla-firefox-16.0.1-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware -current package:
c6ad2f1601006d9d94da832b8f3181c9 xap/mozilla-firefox-16.0.1-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
f954eca54900426d914d1f043e45ca0a xap/mozilla-firefox-16.0.1-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-16.0.1-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
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