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Slackware 15.0: 2023-273-02 Critical: Mozilla-Thunderbird Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2023
Dist Slackware Esm H88
A new version for mozilla-thunderbird has been released on Slackware 15.0 to address a significant buffer overflow vulnerability. Check here for further information.
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-115.3.1-i686-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains a security fix for a critical heap buffer overflow in the libvpx VP8 encoder. For more information, see: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/115.3.1/releasenotes/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-44/ https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5217 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical fix 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: 0cea2374ec068923458ad9c103478ebf mozilla-thunderbird-115.3.1-i686-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 52a2814e0b07a90be709bd26928fb5eb mozilla-thunderbird-115.3.1-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 602be3f93800465c9db6f6aff9554a56 xap/mozilla-thunderbird-115.3.1-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 263fe29cea0d763a4309ae6d659c0f8c xap/mozilla-thunderbird-115.3.1-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical fix slackware heap overflow mozilla-thunderbird

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-thunderbird-115.3.1-i686-1_slack15.0.txz

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