A mozilla-thunderbird security update has been released for Slackware Linux.
slackware-security: mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2020-256-01)
[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2020-256-01)
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:
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patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-68.12.0-i686-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded.
This release contains security fixes and improvements.
For more information, see:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/68.12.0/releasenotes/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-40/
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15663
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15664
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15669
(* 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-68.12.0-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-68.12.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/xap/mozilla-thunderbird-68.12.0-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/xap/mozilla-thunderbird-68.12.0-x86_64-1.txz
MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 14.2 package:
62335dcb100523c1ac8f5bc7a25156ee mozilla-thunderbird-68.12.0-i686-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
f578c4b2aca9afcd32444c097ac3a2e5 mozilla-thunderbird-68.12.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package:
6d8e6139b9a3e0b9796231ff54f87f00 xap/mozilla-thunderbird-68.12.0-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
b0b6de926dcc49bf68912140db33a461 xap/mozilla-thunderbird-68.12.0-x86_64-1.txz
Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg mozilla-thunderbird-68.12.0-i686-1_slack14.2.txz
