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Slackware: 2019-141-01 Critical: Mozilla-Firefox Security Update

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Calendar Grey May 21, 2019
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated mozilla-firefox versions rolled out for Slackware, addressing urgent vulnerabilities and enhancing user protection.
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-60.7.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. Some of 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/mfsa2019-14/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-14/#CVE-2019-9815 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-14/#CVE-2019-9816 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-14/#CVE-2019-9817 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-14/#CVE-2019-9818 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-14/#CVE-2019-9819

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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 14.2:
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: 9bb86b28639fe241a285ae8868f6fd3c mozilla-firefox-60.7.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 71cfd983350a89459015e89af1f4cf46 mozilla-firefox-60.7.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 02f5b3d10ba9ef7a094f862b1a9b4120 xap/mozilla-firefox-60.7.0esr-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: b4ccd8857ce8355105c0595cf2d84154 xap/mozilla-firefox-60.7.0esr-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-60.7.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz

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