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Slackware 14.0 Critical: Mozilla Firefox DoS Advisory SSA:2013-068-01

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Calendar Grey March 9, 2013
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Enhancing your Slackware security requires updating the mozilla-firefox packages due to a critical vulnerability. Follow the guidelines to ensure a secure environment
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-19.0.2-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 *)

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:

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Slackware 13.37 package: 23e37a6cf8ef1f3d2df8796c0063d990 mozilla-firefox-19.0.2-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: c81eb2da62fb24b9dc5bb62f9b41de5a mozilla-firefox-19.0.2-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package: b9a04763c17a2ae0f45a13c9144e2a86 mozilla-firefox-19.0.2-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 230227873d13591800073ed030b72336 mozilla-firefox-19.0.2-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 9c874f07ca53c159015754cd40883d66 xap/mozilla-firefox-19.0.2-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 5b5abace3714d41c3d2b9abf02bb33cf xap/mozilla-firefox-19.0.2-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-19.0.2-i486-1_slack14.0.txz

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