Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 609
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 609

Slackware: 2017-320-02 Critical: Mozilla-Firefox Security Update

slackware
Calendar Grey November 17, 2017
Dist Slackware Esm H88
The latest version of chromium-browser has been released for Fedora to resolve significant vulnerabilities swiftly.
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-52.5.0esr-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: a298ce78fa552e3f363a516d9eb4e30d mozilla-firefox-52.5.0esr-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 2b44936c1a734aed94ed38822dfa7815 mozilla-firefox-52.5.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 4ebc40bcc06d95cde4f2ca8f0e4784dc xap/mozilla-firefox-57.0-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: e86dfb65bf508d076d8ab92b7bfbab1b xap/mozilla-firefox-57.0-x86_64-1.txz

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-52.5.0esr-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

Related News

Your message here