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Slackware 14.0: SSA-2012-326-02 Critical: Mozilla-Firefox Update

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Calendar Grey November 22, 2012
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Freshly released mozilla-firefox updates are now accessible for Slackware, aimed at tackling security vulnerabilities and improving overall system reliability across various distributions.
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-17.0-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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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue update critical slackware security patch 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 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: b0abf4a3a7962cfe19dee2c93b93152a mozilla-firefox-17.0-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: db09fc1e6f59aca5ebf260c86cd588af mozilla-firefox-17.0-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package: 5973c99839e5c20c8c9f551254165199 mozilla-firefox-17.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 2a1a5e9cba118f8f7a8179c6611afd87 mozilla-firefox-17.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 4ad32bb99c5052fe6afcff4e40870526 xap/mozilla-firefox-17.0-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: c5bc9b7f4cf5cae32271892c72dd05d1 xap/mozilla-firefox-17.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue update critical slackware security patch mozilla-firefox

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-17.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz