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Slackware: 2020-209-01 Critical: Mozilla-Firefox Security Fix

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Calendar Grey July 27, 2020
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated packages have been released for Slackware 14.2 and -current that tackle significant security vulnerabilities found in mozilla-firefox. Below are the installation instructions.
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-68.11.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/68.11.0/releasenotes/?redirect_source=mozilla-org (* 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: 45e65a117857a7ade77ec0bccec1393d mozilla-firefox-68.11.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 001cee999a41993bb1028e223e7da91f mozilla-firefox-68.11.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: 36e7929fa90e79348431d0d5ac3e2b28 xap/mozilla-firefox-78.1.0esr-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 94fc695dbfb4e0cb00d8cbf00d9a8a5f xap/mozilla-firefox-78.1.0esr-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-68.11.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz

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