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Slackware64-14.2 ChangeLog (2018-01-20)
Sat Jan 20 16:00:51 UTC 2018
Packages
Upgraded
- patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-52.6.0esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
This release contains security fixes and improvements.
Specifically, this update contains performance.now() mitigations for Spectre.
For more information, see:
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/03/mitigations-landing-new-class-timing-attack/
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefoxESR.html
(* Security fix *) - patches/packages/wget-1.19.3-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
This update fixes various non-security bugs, including this one:
Prevent erroneous decompression of .gz and .tgz files with broken servers.