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Slackware 15.0: 2023-256-04 Critical: Mozilla Thunderbird Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 14, 2023
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Important announcement regarding mozilla-thunderbird for Slackware 15.0 aimed at fixing a heap overflow vulnerability found in version 115.2.2.
New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 15.0, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-115.2.2-i686-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains a security fix for a critical heap buffer overflow. For more information, see: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/115.2.2/releasenotes/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-40/ https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4863 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update slackware heap overflow mozilla thunderbird

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 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 9cd9ca4c381383b3d88799c98d23a17e mozilla-thunderbird-115.2.2-i686-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: a93aef1e0c56169d641cbd248b19b7c4 mozilla-thunderbird-115.2.2-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 53338cf15ec0f21ad5f40b4d2fdb12ab xap/mozilla-thunderbird-115.2.2-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 472596d9552e73c524abfb530bed9a1b xap/mozilla-thunderbird-115.2.2-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update slackware heap overflow mozilla thunderbird

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-thunderbird-115.2.2-i686-1_slack15.0.txz

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