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:Mozilla-firefox (SSA:2019-081-01) Update for Slackware
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patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-60.6.1esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded.
This release contains security fixes and improvements. The patched flaws
are considered critical, and could be used to run attacker code and install
software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing.
For more information, see:
https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefoxESR.html
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-10/
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-9810i
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-9813
(* 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-60.6.1esr-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-60.6.1esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/xap/mozilla-firefox-60.6.1esr-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/xap/mozilla-firefox-60.6.1esr-x86_64-1.txz
MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 14.2 package:
c37b038f81e5b07a9927ada82bb4fb4a mozilla-firefox-60.6.1esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
8c372c3b4f4479fb2ec59b87d9460713 mozilla-firefox-60.6.1esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package:
5b03626dff034f6daf229cdc83c17ddf xap/mozilla-firefox-60.6.1esr-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
a23c229838e378fc0a38e7a76c27edc1 xap/mozilla-firefox-60.6.1esr-x86_64-1.txz
Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-60.6.1esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz