A mozilla-thunderbird security update has been released for Slackware Linux 15.0.

mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2023-273-02)

mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2023-273-02)

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current
to fix a security issue.

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog:
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patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-115.3.1-i686-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.
This release contains a security fix for a critical heap buffer overflow in
the libvpx VP8 encoder.
For more information, see:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/115.3.1/releasenotes/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-44/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5217
(* 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 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-115.3.1-i686-1_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-115.3.1-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/xap/mozilla-thunderbird-115.3.1-i686-1.txz

Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/xap/mozilla-thunderbird-115.3.1-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 15.0 package:
0cea2374ec068923458ad9c103478ebf mozilla-thunderbird-115.3.1-i686-1_slack15.0.txz

Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
52a2814e0b07a90be709bd26928fb5eb mozilla-thunderbird-115.3.1-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz

Slackware -current package:
602be3f93800465c9db6f6aff9554a56 xap/mozilla-thunderbird-115.3.1-i686-1.txz

Slackware x86_64 -current package:
263fe29cea0d763a4309ae6d659c0f8c xap/mozilla-thunderbird-115.3.1-x86_64-1.txz

Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg mozilla-thunderbird-115.3.1-i686-1_slack15.0.txz

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