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Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 4549-1] firefox-esr security update



Hello,

On Thu 24 Oct 2019 at 08:43PM +00, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:

> Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web
> browser, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary
> code, information disclosure, cross-site scripting or denial of service.
>
> Debian follows the extended support releases (ESR) of Firefox. Support
> for the 60.x series has ended, so starting with this update we're now
> following the 68.x releases.
>
> For the oldstable distribution (stretch), some additional config changes
> to the buildd network are needed (to provide the new Rust-based toolchain
> needed by ESR68). Packages will be made available when those are sorted out.

Many thanks for all the work that is needed to make this big ESR updates
happen in stable and oldstable.  It's important for Debian stable's
usefulness on desktops.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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