Slackware 1133 Published by

A mozilla-firefox security update has been released for Slackware Linux.



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-68.6.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded.
This release contains security fixes and improvements.
For more information, see:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/68.6.0/releasenotes/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-09/
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6805
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6806
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6807
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6811
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-20503
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6812
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6814
(* 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-68.6.0esr-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-68.6.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/xap/mozilla-firefox-68.6.0esr-i686-1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/xap/mozilla-firefox-68.6.0esr-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 14.2 package:
1b7ba097d641feae449921dfa622de13 mozilla-firefox-68.6.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz

Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
d683933184c6a4dd1c112e0c9b723096 mozilla-firefox-68.6.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz

Slackware -current package:
ee2f2907113e71d8dafceca73075db74 xap/mozilla-firefox-68.6.0esr-i686-1.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
ec4ddab65c8c8c4413242b40d1f7bf36 xap/mozilla-firefox-68.6.0esr-x86_64-1.txz

Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-68.6.0esr-i686-1_slack14.2.txz