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Slackware 14.2: 2017-221-02 Critical: Mozilla Firefox Security Issue

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Calendar Grey August 9, 2017
Dist Slackware Esm H88
New packages of mozilla-firefox are now released for Slackware to address urgent security vulnerabilities, complete with details on the updates.
New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-52.3.0esr-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/ (* 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 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.2 package: 692b81a7d0f906f08d7e8b5a2638b422 mozilla-firefox-52.3.0esr-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 57bc2b420d84a7a0c6762063aca2e6dd mozilla-firefox-52.3.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 9be3b8d587f7df13c5f8cfea4d80d882 xap/mozilla-firefox-52.3.0esr-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: f88e60c7c6b739803a0ebc6e521caeb5 xap/mozilla-firefox-52.3.0esr-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-52.3.0esr-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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