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Slackware 14.1: SSA:2015-241-01 Critical: Firefox Security Issue

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Calendar Grey August 29, 2015
Dist Slackware Esm H88
In response to potential vulnerabilities, the latest mozilla-firefox updates have been released for Slackware users. It's advisable to update!
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-38.2.1esr-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 *)

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: 11f9bb7e7534069502b437b68188f607 mozilla-firefox-38.2.1esr-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 96c5025994f65a19bcff40621c38985a mozilla-firefox-38.2.1esr-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: 66de00a34effa218153525508e032a76 xap/mozilla-firefox-40.0.3-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: f728ead33569eec7f545b50bcc355231 xap/mozilla-firefox-40.0.3-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-38.2.1esr-i486-1_slack14.1.txz

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