Manuel Reimer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> security releases of the two Mozilla based products "SeaMonkey" and
> "Firefox" have been published 2008-07-02 and 2008-07-01 by the project
> maintainers.
>
> So far Slackware has *no* patch package! At least one of the holes, in
> detail this one: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419846
> seems to be trivial to exploit and will *definetly* allow anyone to run
> any code in user context!
>
> Slackware could be so great, if security patches would be published *in*
> *time*... :´-(
>
> CU
>
> Manuel

I am going to show my ignorance but if the flaw is in Firefox etc, then would it
not be up to Mozilla to post the patches? Mozilla sent me a heads up to update
my Firefox because they fixed the flaw in the version I was running.
Why would I expect Slackware to "fix Firefox" ?

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