Technical Description

Slackware has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities identified in Mozilla Firefox. These issues could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands or bypass security restrictions. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2006-5068

Affected Products

Slackware 10.2
Slackware 11.0

Solution

Updated package for Slackware 10.2 :
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.9-i686-1.tgz

Updated packages for Slackware 11.0 :
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/extra/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.1/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.1-i686-1.tgz
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.9-i686-1.tgz

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5138
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.399935

ChangeLog

2006-12-26 : Initial release

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