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Fedora 22: 2015-13436 Critical: Firefox Web Browser Security Update

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Calendar Grey August 18, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Mozilla Firefox patch for Fedora 22 tackles significant vulnerabilities, offering crucial fixes and improving overall performance.
For list of changes see: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/40.0/releasenotes/?redirect_source=mozilla-org

Summary

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards

compliance, performance and portability.

Update Information:

For list of changes see: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/40.0/releasenotes/?redirect_source=mozilla-org

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora software web browser Firefox

Change Log

* Wed Aug 12 2015 Jan Horak - 40.0-4 - Workaround for reported crashes (layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled set to false) * Tue Aug 11 2015 Jan Horak - 40.0-3 - Update to 40.0 Build 5 * Fri Aug 7 2015 Martin Stransky - 40.0-2 - Patches updated (GtkEntry padding patch, toolbar button patch) * Fri Aug 7 2015 Martin Stransky - 40.0-1 - Update to 40.0 Build 4 * Thu Aug 6 2015 Martin Stransky - 39.0.3-1 - Updated to 39.0.3 * Mon Jul 6 2015 Martin Stransky - 39.0-8 - Added a fix for rhbz#1240259 - Firefox 39 does not open home page but "restore session" * Thu Jul 2 2015 Martin Stransky - 39.0-6 - Added symbolic (high contrast) icon * Thu Jun 25 2015 Martin Stransky - 39.0-5 - Update to 39.0 Build 6 - Update nss/nspr versions * Wed Jun 17 2015 Fedora Release Engineering - 38.0.5-4 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_23_Mass_Rebuild * Mon Jun 8 2015 Jan Horak - 38.0.5-3 - System application picker dialog (mozbz#1129873) * Fri Jun 5 2015 Martin Stransky - 38.0.5-2 - Disabled system colors by default (rhbz#1226489) * Wed Jun 3 2015 Jan Horak - 38.0.5-1 - Update to 38.0.5 * Mon Jun 1 2015 Martin Stransky - 38.0.1-6 - Added fix for rhbz#1226868 - [GTK3] regression: bad colors make notifications unreadable * Fri May 29 2015 Martin Stransky - 38.0.1-5 - Added patch for mozbz#1169233 - Disabled menu items are not greyed out * Fri May 29 2015 Martin Stransky - 38.0.1-4 - Added patch for mozbz#1160154 - huge bookmark padding * Tue May 26 2015 Martin Stransky - 38.0.1-3 - spec clean up * Fri May 22 2015 Moez Roy - 38.0.1-2 - Rebuilt with hardening flags so it passes the checksec test; - See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-13436 2015-08-14 23:12:45
Name : firefox Product : Fedora 22 Version : 40.0 Release : 4.fc22 URL : Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser Description : Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.

Update Instructions

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

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Name: firefox
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 40.0
Release: 4.fc22
URL: Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser

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