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Slackware: 2020-042-01 Critical: Mozilla Firefox Security Fix

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Calendar Grey February 12, 2020
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates for the mozilla-firefox packages on Slackware 14.2 resolve significant security vulnerabilities. It is recommended to upgrade to enhance your system's 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-68.5.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/68.5.0/releasenotes/?redirect_source=mozilla-org https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-06/ https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6796 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6797 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6798 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6799 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6800 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical software update security fix slackware mozilla-firefox

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: f23607c17abc99d0a788334fd0cbbe45 mozilla-firefox-68.5.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: a737751d39bfbc9e0186f48b903c79fc mozilla-firefox-68.5.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 7e81e1c8379e241f1f106721d27074a6 xap/mozilla-firefox-68.5.0esr-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 45499e980cd979a8f8e97816ba253c0f xap/mozilla-firefox-68.5.0esr-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical software update security fix slackware mozilla-firefox

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-68.5.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz

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