Slackware 14.1 SSA:2017-112-01 Critical Mozilla-Firefox Update
slackware
April 22, 2017
New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.1 to fix security and stability issues
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-45.9.0esr-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. Also, switching back to the 45.x ESR branch due to instabilty of the 52.x ESR branch on Slackware 14.1. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/ (* Security fix *)
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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:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-45.9.0esr-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-45.9.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 14.1 package:
bb6fa12ed1db62a4f955bbdd9379d75b mozilla-firefox-45.9.0esr-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
f143db31cf3401d7642da613ae2969bf mozilla-firefox-45.9.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-45.9.0esr-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
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