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Slackware 14.1: SSA:2016-085-02 Critical: Mozilla-Thunderbird Security Fix

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Calendar Grey March 25, 2016
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Updated mozilla-thunderbird versions released to address vulnerabilities for Slackware 14.1 and -current systems.
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-38.7.1-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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Topics Covered

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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: d4ba6dd375265153bd931387cb6a5cfc mozilla-thunderbird-38.7.1-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 2129242871d9b80a8b60374ff66b1cdb mozilla-thunderbird-38.7.1-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: 6860285f67b109bc84b13def96a11264 xap/mozilla-thunderbird-38.7.1-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 23c37220afdc2b477ad1a6412f058c84 xap/mozilla-thunderbird-38.7.1-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-thunderbird-38.7.1-i486-1_slack14.1.txz