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Slackware 14.1: 2015-219-01 Critical Update for Firefox Security

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Calendar Grey August 8, 2015
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Updated Mozilla Firefox packages are now available for Slackware, aimed at resolving critical security vulnerabilities and enhancing overall system stability.
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-38.1.1esr-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: 3dfbd7fd54606867b8f5fa856fe0c17e mozilla-firefox-38.1.1esr-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: c2a7c3c9f29721d8063c40648f2e6343 mozilla-firefox-38.1.1esr-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: 44ad0ed0e2812443bdf9f336dcfa93f3 xap/mozilla-firefox-39.0.3-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 8b138583352817ac17769eff111923d3 xap/mozilla-firefox-39.0.3-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-38.1.1esr-i486-1_slack14.1.txz