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Fedora 21: 2015-4742 Moderate: QtWebKit Logs URLs in Private Browsing

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Calendar Grey April 21, 2015
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The newest QtWebKit update addresses the URL tracking issue found in private browsing sessions, along with detailed patch guidelines and severity ratings for users
QtWebKit logs visited URLs to WebpageIcons.db in private browsing mode.

Summary

Qt WebKit bindings

Update Information:

QtWebKit logs visited URLs to WebpageIcons.db in private browsing mode.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora software patch private browsing qtwebkit url logging

Change Log

* Mon Mar 23 2015 Rex Dieter 2.3.4-6 - QtWebKit logs visited URLs to WebpageIcons.db in private browsing mode (#1204795) * Mon Mar 23 2015 Rex Dieter 2.3.4-5 - drop ppc64le patch (that no longer applies or is needed) * Fri Mar 20 2015 Rex Dieter - 2.3.4-4 - gcc-5.0.0-0.20.fc23 FTBFS qtwebkit (#1203008) - add versioned glib2 dep (#1202735) * Tue Mar 17 2015 Rex Dieter 2.3.4-3 - qtwebkit enable jit for ppc64le (#1096330) * Wed Feb 18 2015 Rex Dieter 2.3.4-2 - rebuild (gcc5)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1204795 - qt5-qtwebkit: QtWebKit logs visited URLs to WebpageIcons.db in private browsing mode https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204795

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update qtwebkit' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: qtwebkit
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 2.3.4
Release: 6.fc21
URL: https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/QtWebKit
Summary: Qt WebKit bindings

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora software patch private browsing qtwebkit url logging

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