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Slackware alert SSA:2006-257-03 (mozilla)

From:  Slackware Security Team <security@slackware.com>
To:  slackware-security@slackware.com
Subject:  [slackware-security] firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey (SSA:2006-257-03)
Date:  Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:46:30 -0700 (PDT)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey (SSA:2006-257-03) New Firefox and Thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and -current to fix security issues. In addition, a new Seamonkey package is available for Slackware -current to fix similar issues. More details about the issues may be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabil... http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabil... http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabil... Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.7-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to firefox-1.5.0.7. This upgrade fixes several possible security bugs. For more information, see: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabil... (* Security fix *) patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.7-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to thunderbird-1.5.0.7. This upgrade fixes several possible security bugs. For more information, see: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabil... (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading from ftp.slackware.com. Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating additional 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 packages for Slackware 10.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/patc... ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/patc... Updated packages for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/s... ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/s... ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/s... MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 10.2 packages: bb7c3d3135fd5882c5278834157f1430 mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.7-i686-1.tgz f854178ee0da41ac88829b91dd3cdae0 mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.7-i686-1.tgz Slackware -current packages: bb7c3d3135fd5882c5278834157f1430 mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.7-i686-1.tgz f854178ee0da41ac88829b91dd3cdae0 mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.7-i686-1.tgz f6908792d949f0db04c059a6255cb71f seamonkey-1.0.5-i486-1.tgz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.7-i686-1.tgz mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.7-i686-1.tgz And for Slackware -current: # upgradepkg seamonkey-1.0.5-i486-1.tgz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security@slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | To leave the slackware-security mailing list: | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Send an email to majordomo@slackware.com with this text in the body of | | the email message: | | | | unsubscribe slackware-security | | | | You will get a confirmation message back containing instructions to | | complete the process. Please do not reply to this email address. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFCfiIakRjwEAQIjMRAuO3AJ4xIISficCzYfGcxU66hwMqeP/DWQCcCWa+ ool42D0kIso10rbfrGy9img= =yym/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


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