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Slackware: 2016-106-01 Moderate: Mozilla-Thunderbird Security Fix

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Calendar Grey April 15, 2016
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The recent upgrade for mozilla-thunderbird on Slackware tackles critical security issues. Below you will find comprehensive guidelines to ensure a smooth and secure update process.
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-45.0-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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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update moderate severity slackware mozilla-thunderbird

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: ddd99b782cc46e0c5d29e74a4190f1e2 mozilla-thunderbird-45.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: d00bf0b51ea0d06d72b29870f9ac14a6 mozilla-thunderbird-45.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: a0ba6ca09432713985a99bda5471a8ed xap/mozilla-thunderbird-45.0-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: d3cfca096994abb33b79fce6e546dc8e xap/mozilla-thunderbird-45.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update moderate severity slackware mozilla-thunderbird

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-thunderbird-45.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz