New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog:Mozilla-firefox (SSA:2016-077-01) Update for Slackware
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patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-38.7.1esr-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded.
This release contains security fixes and improvements.
For more information, see:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox.html
(* 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 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-38.7.1esr-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-38.7.1esr-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/xap/mozilla-firefox-45.0.1-i586-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/xap/mozilla-firefox-45.0.1-x86_64-1.txz
MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 14.1 package:
85cd667ae60e148a2ba25d4c7b2e7614 mozilla-firefox-38.7.1esr-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
b048dc8d13293a95d488af8a05d2f5ef mozilla-firefox-38.7.1esr-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package:
10098578d68cce69354796e8f299d781 xap/mozilla-firefox-45.0.1-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
2fbf9d25439c2d8af545595cd1ba73b6 xap/mozilla-firefox-45.0.1-x86_64-1.txz
Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-38.7.1esr-i486-1_slack14.1.txz