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Slackware 14.1: 2023-111-05 Urgent Mozilla-NSS Security Update

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Calendar Grey November 6, 2015
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Recently launched mozilla-nss updates for Slackware aim to rectify security vulnerabilities and bolster system defenses against potential risks.
New mozilla-nss packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-nss-3.20.1-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Upgraded to nss-3.20.1 and nspr-4.10.10. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7181 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7182 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7183 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical software update slackware threat mitigation mozilla-nss

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 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
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 14.0 package: 4332a3c1eee2adc18242a42ff85744e9 mozilla-nss-3.20.1-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 2600f3d3164da4e6098b8fbaed13148d mozilla-nss-3.20.1-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 268c3e8d4f628a26ab96a31a6ba40531 mozilla-nss-3.20.1-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 147e053b073c68af47627b9f59ad61c6 mozilla-nss-3.20.1-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: 8674ef2f55c5c3b1866669fc54ec0e79 l/mozilla-nss-3.20.1-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: c3488041acc7e9db1edcb04841a419be l/mozilla-nss-3.20.1-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-nss-3.20.1-i486-1_slack14.1.txz