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Slackware 14.2: 2016-336-01 Critical: Mozilla-Firefox Security Update

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Calendar Grey December 1, 2016
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Updated Mozilla Firefox packages for Slackware address severe vulnerability concerns, enhancing overall security.
New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-45.5.1esr-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/ https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9079 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical software update slackware mozilla-firefox

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 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.1 package: 853db455bd60f93b82475f5f2700af79 mozilla-firefox-45.5.1esr-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 44f72499e02ad701f047ea8d27803927 mozilla-firefox-45.5.1esr-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: af1f939c2ead4de1478cae79b2297baf mozilla-firefox-45.5.1esr-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 1eb46bdcabe75688cd6856bde1a5de27 mozilla-firefox-45.5.1esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 5f5195148ac5e0bf4d028a67a22e754b xap/mozilla-firefox-50.0.2-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: f474a2f0242a75e5f368c1698c6b9f16 xap/mozilla-firefox-50.0.2-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical software update slackware mozilla-firefox

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-45.5.1esr-i586-1_slack14.2.txz