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Slackware 14.2: 2019-029-01 Critical Security Update for Mozilla-Firefox

slackware
Calendar Grey January 30, 2019
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated mozilla-firefox versions made available for Slackware 14.2 and -current address significant security vulnerabilities that have been discovered.
New mozilla-firefox packages are available for 14.2 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-60.5.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-02/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-02/#CVE-2018-18500 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-02/#CVE-2018-18505 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-02/#CVE-2018-18501 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update Slackware mozilla-firefox

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: cad63204094d15cad52ec6046a3442aa mozilla-firefox-60.5.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 6365c7e9317047942266a170327625eb mozilla-firefox-60.5.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: dc6ff398a70e82e215a173645304bd43 xap/mozilla-firefox-60.5.0esr-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 4b357a106b675205f173517ea166c392 xap/mozilla-firefox-60.5.0esr-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update Slackware mozilla-firefox

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-60.5.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz