Re: Re: [security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2015:1658-1: important: Security update for MozillaFirefox

Rob Janssen wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
>>     openSUSE Security Update: Security update for MozillaFirefox
>> ______________________________________________________________________________
>>
>> Announcement ID:    openSUSE-SU-2015:1658-1
>> Rating:             important
>> References:         #947003
>> Cross-References:   CVE-2015-4476 CVE-2015-4500 CVE-2015-4501
>>                      CVE-2015-4502 CVE-2015-4503 CVE-2015-4504
>>                      CVE-2015-4505 CVE-2015-4506 CVE-2015-4507
>>                      CVE-2015-4508 CVE-2015-4509 CVE-2015-4510
>>                      CVE-2015-4511 CVE-2015-4512 CVE-2015-4516
>>                      CVE-2015-4517 CVE-2015-4519 CVE-2015-4520
>>                      CVE-2015-4521 CVE-2015-4522 CVE-2015-7174
>>                      CVE-2015-7175 CVE-2015-7176 CVE-2015-7177
>>                      CVE-2015-7178 CVE-2015-7179 CVE-2015-7180
>>                     Affected Products:
>>                      openSUSE 13.2
>>                      openSUSE 13.1
>> ______________________________________________________________________________
>>
>>     An update that fixes 27 vulnerabilities is now available.
>>
> 
> Why are the updates for Firefox and Chromium tracked continuously, while
> Seamonkey is
> updated only very occasionally?   The version on openSUSE 13.1 is still 2.33.1
> and Seamonkey
> complains it is outdated.

Good question. Especially since Seamonkey 2.38 was released a couple of days
ago which is AFAIK based on the same components like Firefox 41. So if Firefox
41 is an important security update then Seamonkey 2.38 would also be an
important security update.

Ciao, Michael.