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Slackware 15.0: 2024-083-01 Critical Mozilla-Firefox Security Update

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2024
Dist Slackware Esm H88
A crucial security patch for mozilla-firefox on Slackware 15.0 and -current has been released. Immediate upgrade is advised!
New mozilla-firefox 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-firefox-115.9.1esr-i686-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a critical security issue: An attacker was able to inject an event handler into a privileged object that would allow arbitrary JavaScript execution in the parent process. For more information, see: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/115.9.1esr/releasenotes/?redirect_source=mozilla-org https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-16/ https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-29944 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update remote code execution critical fix Slackware mozilla-firefox JavaScript execution

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: 99c90f4ea4e3ed0fd8ba2ef14c0d8a83 mozilla-firefox-115.9.1esr-i686-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 44a7a466cdfff46a159fb5a0e2519f7c mozilla-firefox-115.9.1esr-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: b7633f0ba237545172c1854369502dce xap/mozilla-firefox-115.9.1esr-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 5ac5ad1d77f88975c6f0ea787865123c xap/mozilla-firefox-115.9.1esr-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update remote code execution critical fix Slackware mozilla-firefox JavaScript execution

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-115.9.1esr-i686-1_slack15.0.txz

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