A mozilla-firefox security update has been released for Slackware Linux.
mozilla-firefox (SSA:2020-042-01)
New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to
fix security issues.
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog:
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patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-68.5.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded.
This release contains security fixes and improvements.
For more information, see:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/68.5.0/releasenotes/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-06/
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6796
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6797
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6798
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6799
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6800
(* Security fix *)
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Where to find the new packages:
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Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
( http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for
additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-68.5.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-68.5.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/xap/mozilla-firefox-68.5.0esr-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/xap/mozilla-firefox-68.5.0esr-x86_64-1.txz
MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 14.2 package:
f23607c17abc99d0a788334fd0cbbe45 mozilla-firefox-68.5.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
a737751d39bfbc9e0186f48b903c79fc mozilla-firefox-68.5.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package:
7e81e1c8379e241f1f106721d27074a6 xap/mozilla-firefox-68.5.0esr-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
45499e980cd979a8f8e97816ba253c0f xap/mozilla-firefox-68.5.0esr-x86_64-1.txz
Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-68.5.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz
