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Slackware 14.1 Security Advisory: Mozilla NSS Critical Update

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Calendar Grey March 10, 2016
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated mozilla-nss packages have been released for Slackware to address significant security vulnerabilities and improve overall system protection.
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-3.23-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Upgraded to nss-3.23 and nspr-4.12. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/nss/ (* 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 14.0:
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: 477aad77295cdad06550ec789db125ed mozilla-nss-3.23-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: da2b0d54d5bab3d60766691fefbfe59e mozilla-nss-3.23-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 34fd357d8c8a46f36ecce78f6a54ca09 mozilla-nss-3.23-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 6ac8821fa74d32756b8399052cd4934f mozilla-nss-3.23-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: b3d6ac3d7ba4647666cd92b7efd5263e l/mozilla-nss-3.23-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 842c42f0e91caad148ceede8d46bc900 l/mozilla-nss-3.23-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-nss-3.23-i486-1_slack14.1.txz

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