New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog:Mozilla-Thunderbird (SSA:2019-268-01) Update for Slackware
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patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-68.1.1-i686-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded.
This release contains security fixes and improvements.
For more information, see:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/68.1.1/releasenotes/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird.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 14.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-68.1.1-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-thunderbird-68.1.1-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/xap/mozilla-thunderbird-68.1.1-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/xap/mozilla-thunderbird-68.1.1-x86_64-1.txz
MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 14.2 package:
3065941d32eeb86e738d8752ac11a5de mozilla-thunderbird-68.1.1-i686-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
219ade1f27c11bbcf4e488ff88fbebcb mozilla-thunderbird-68.1.1-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package:
2f0094031ea6a0ed3e23dff1a0a7f1ca xap/mozilla-thunderbird-68.1.1-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
c2a6f77a2ec18385523adc211924afb6 xap/mozilla-thunderbird-68.1.1-x86_64-1.txz
Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg mozilla-thunderbird-68.1.1-i686-1_slack14.2.txz