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Slackware: 2019-191-01 Critical: Mozilla-Firefox Security Update

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Calendar Grey July 10, 2019
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Latest Mozilla-Firefox updates released for Slackware, addressing significant security vulnerabilities and bolstering browser security features.
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-68.0esr-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/mfsa2019-22/ https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9811 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11711 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11712 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11713 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11729 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11715 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11717 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11719

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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: 87b647c90470ff5ec0d284d0bb669b55 mozilla-firefox-68.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 40a642ea066ced5b4d97cf753c360f76 mozilla-firefox-68.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: f0ef23f604b2e8fbf2972d78c3dcfd52 xap/mozilla-firefox-68.0esr-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: d379ec99b3c0f647de6c7b7a736b5a69 xap/mozilla-firefox-68.0esr-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-68.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz

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