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Critical Fix for Race Condition in Fedora 42 Chromium CVE-2026-1220

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Calendar Grey January 28, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical update for Fedora 42 Chromium addresses race condition in V8. Users should upgrade to maintain security.
Update to 144.0.7559.96 * CVE-2026-1220: Race in V8

Summary

Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).

Update Information:

Update to 144.0.7559.96 * CVE-2026-1220: Race in V8

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security advisory fedora update important race condition Chromium

Change Log

* Wed Jan 21 2026 Than Ngo - 144.0.7559.96-1 - Update to 144.0.7559.96 * CVE-2026-1220: Race in V8 * Fri Jan 16 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 144.0.7559.59-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Mass_Rebuild * Fri Jan 16 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 144.0.7559.59-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Mass_Rebuild

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2026-78ff346bb0 2026-01-28 01:25:55.182855+00:00 Name : chromium Product : Fedora 42 Version : 144.0.7559.96 Release : 1.fc42 URL : http://www.chromium.org/Home Summary : A WebKit (Blink) powered web browser that Google doesn't want you to use Description : Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-78ff346bb0' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: chromium
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 144.0.7559.96
Release: 1.fc42
URL: http://www.chromium.org/Home
Summary: A WebKit (Blink) powered web browser that Google doesn't want you to use

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