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Slackware: 2019-081-01 Critical: Mozilla-Firefox Security Update

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Calendar Grey March 22, 2019
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Critical Mozilla-Firefox update for Slackware addressing significant security issues to prevent code execution.
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-60.6.1esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. The patched flaws are considered critical, and could be used to run attacker code and install software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-10/ https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9810i https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9813 (* 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: c37b038f81e5b07a9927ada82bb4fb4a mozilla-firefox-60.6.1esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 8c372c3b4f4479fb2ec59b87d9460713 mozilla-firefox-60.6.1esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 5b03626dff034f6daf229cdc83c17ddf xap/mozilla-firefox-60.6.1esr-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: a23c229838e378fc0a38e7a76c27edc1 xap/mozilla-firefox-60.6.1esr-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-60.6.1esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz

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