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Fedora 23: FEDORA-2016-aa8275e843 Moderate: Links Browser Security Issue

fedora
Calendar Grey October 5, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest release of Links 2.13 fixes a problem related to anonymous browsing in Fedora 23, improving both the safety and performance of the web browser.
Update to 2.13 to fix the anonymous mode security issue.

Summary

Links is a web browser capable of running in either graphics or text mode.

It provides a pull-down menu system, renders complex pages, has partial HTML

4.0 support (including tables, frames and support for multiple character sets

and UTF-8), supports color and monochrome terminals and allows horizontal

scrolling.

Update Information:

Update to 2.13 to fix the anonymous mode security issue.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora software update security fix moderate severity links browser anonymous mode

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1364919 - links: Unix domain sockets shared between anonymous and non-anonymous instances [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1364919 [ 2 ] Bug #1352033 - links-2.13 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1352033

Update Instructions

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

Name: links
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 2.13
Release: 1.fc23
URL: http://links.twibright.com/
Summary: Web browser running in both graphics and text mode

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora software update security fix moderate severity links browser anonymous mode

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