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Slackware 14.1: SSA:2014-204-02 Critical Firefox Security Patch

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Calendar Grey July 24, 2014
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Recent security updates for Mozilla Firefox have been rolled out for Slackware 14.1, addressing significant vulnerabilities thoroughly.
New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-24.7.0esr-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/ (* 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 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.1 package: f9b36ed8841cfb7498ab733fc45cee57 mozilla-firefox-24.7.0esr-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 33a51298e9816a86d2bbf429c0544684 mozilla-firefox-24.7.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: 6e8220cd09b571b2b75c268f61c45211 xap/mozilla-firefox-31.0-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 0fe8c17b4409b3477b63167d98a66149 xap/mozilla-firefox-31.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-24.7.0esr-i486-1_slack14.1.txz