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Slackware: 2020-126-01 Critical: Mozilla-Firefox Security Fix

slackware
Calendar Grey May 5, 2020
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Latest updates for Mozilla Firefox on Slackware tackle critical vulnerabilities and enhance overall performance. Immediate installation advised.
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-68.8.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/68.8.0/releasenotes/?redirect_source=mozilla-org https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-17/ https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12387 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12388 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12389 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6831 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12392 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12393 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12395 (* 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: 6417c87bdf41a0c7271f54a4467bbef3 mozilla-firefox-68.8.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: d1263c377077f81495ae93bfa8967aee mozilla-firefox-68.8.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 8a6d03765d81e8ac05ca02bbeadb017c xap/mozilla-firefox-68.8.0esr-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 3c200e79b8849ac51759656e137962bc xap/mozilla-firefox-68.8.0esr-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-68.8.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz

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