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Slackware: 2020-070-01 Moderate: Mozilla-Firefox Security Update

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Calendar Grey March 10, 2020
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Slackware's latest package updates for Mozilla-Firefox address severe security vulnerabilities. Ensure your system's safety by upgrading immediately.
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-68.6.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/68.6.0/releasenotes/?redirect_source=mozilla-org https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-09/ https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6805 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6806 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6807 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6811 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-20503 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6812 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6814 (* 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: 1b7ba097d641feae449921dfa622de13 mozilla-firefox-68.6.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: d683933184c6a4dd1c112e0c9b723096 mozilla-firefox-68.6.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: ee2f2907113e71d8dafceca73075db74 xap/mozilla-firefox-68.6.0esr-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: ec4ddab65c8c8c4413242b40d1f7bf36 xap/mozilla-firefox-68.6.0esr-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-68.6.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz

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