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From: Slackware Security Team <security@slackware.com>
To: slackware-security@slackware.com
Subject: [slackware-security] Mozilla/Firefox (SSA:2005-203-01)
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:37:04 -0700 (PDT)
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[slackware-security]  Mozilla/Firefox (SSA:2005-203-01)


New Mozilla packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, and -current
to fix various security issues and bugs.  See the Mozilla site for a complete
list of the issues patched:

  http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#Mozilla

New versions of the mozilla-plugins symlink creation package are also out for
Slackware 10.0 and 10.1, and a new version of the jre-symlink package for
Slackware -current.


Here are the details from the Slackware 10.1 ChangeLog:
+--------------------------+
patches/packages/mozilla-1.7.10-i486-1.tgz:  Upgraded to mozilla-1.7.10.
  This fixes several security issues.  For more information, see:
  http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#Mozilla
  (* Security fix *)
patches/packages/mozilla-plugins-1.7.10-noarch-1.tgz:  Upgraded Java(TM)
  symlink for Mozilla.
+--------------------------+


Where to find the new packages:
+-----------------------------+

Updated packages for Slackware 10.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.0/patches/packages/mozilla-1.7.10-i486-1.tgz
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.0/patches/packages/mozilla-plugins-1.7.10-noarch-1.tgz

Updated packages for Slackware 10.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.1/patches/packages/mozilla-1.7.10-i486-1.tgz
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.1/patches/packages/mozilla-plugins-1.7.10-noarch-1.tgz

Updated packages for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/xap/jre-symlink-1.0.6-noarch-1.tgz
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/xap/mozilla-1.7.10-i486-1.tgz


MD5 signatures:
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Slackware 10.0 packages:
59d2dfdcba97364dfda9250ef0fd4f47  mozilla-1.7.10-i486-1.tgz
147d74a7b2da234cd211cae1bd00730c  mozilla-plugins-1.7.10-noarch-1.tgz

Slackware 10.1 packages:
6ef79dd1c040f84e6784b14689580696  mozilla-1.7.10-i486-1.tgz
a1d362a84d491b95aab7da2f2baa1ddf  mozilla-plugins-1.7.10-noarch-1.tgz

Slackware -current packages:
d90fb28753c39c3e71c47401b2a6dbe1  jre-symlink-1.0.6-noarch-1.tgz
2ec162329ad817a613c52164d5731960  mozilla-1.7.10-i486-1.tgz


Installation instructions:
+------------------------+

Upgrade the packages as root:
# upgradepkg mozilla-1.7.10-i486-1.tgz mozilla-plugins-1.7.10-noarch-1.tgz


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Slackware Linux Security Team
http://slackware.com/gpg-key
security@slackware.com

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