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Slackware 14.1 Critical: SSA:2015-226-02 Mozilla-Thunderbird Security Issue

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Calendar Grey August 14, 2015
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Important patch available for mozilla-thunderbird on Slackware to fix severe vulnerabilities. Please update without delay for protection.
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-38.2.0-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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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: b604dc0c4414d529e4447c52bdca7ff8 mozilla-thunderbird-38.2.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 81d0e5f2dee8dfb9029b8ccc0d7246a9 mozilla-thunderbird-38.2.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: 1bfe1c0e77e441ce12bed47699097d08 xap/mozilla-thunderbird-38.2.0-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: f32f0308324231562333bb7c39fb9d6a xap/mozilla-thunderbird-38.2.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-thunderbird-38.2.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz