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Slackware 14.1: 2014-247-03 Moderate: Mozilla-Thunderbird Security Fix

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Calendar Grey September 4, 2014
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Updated mozilla-thunderbird versions for Slackware address critical security vulnerabilities with recent enhancements. Explore the new features!
New mozilla-thunderbird 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-thunderbird-24.8.0-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/thunderbird/ (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate slackware package upgrade mozilla-thunderbird

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: d3aee56157ac97376502d27cb48d6c94 mozilla-thunderbird-24.8.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 401277ce64bf0e78cac317036aa74f27 mozilla-thunderbird-24.8.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: ba2964d0202678032bed9be60366e16c xap/mozilla-thunderbird-31.1.0-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 7c288049c4b81616319574215bce2f94 xap/mozilla-thunderbird-31.1.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate slackware package upgrade mozilla-thunderbird

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-thunderbird-24.8.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz