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Fedora 24: 2017-6938ef7591 Critical: Epiphany Password Extraction Attack
fedora
February 12, 2017
Update to 3.20.7, fixing a serious password extraction sweep attack on the password manager [(#752738)](
Summary
Epiphany is the web browser for the GNOME desktop. Its goal is to be
simple and easy to use. Epiphany ties together many GNOME components
in order to let you focus on the Web content, instead of the browser
application.
Update Information:
Update to 3.20.7, fixing a serious password extraction sweep attack on the
password manager [(#752738)](
Topics Covered
Change Log
References
Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2017-6938ef7591 2017-02-12 11:08:16.385150
Name : epiphany Product : Fedora 24 Version : 3.20.7 Release : 1.fc24 URL : https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web Summary : Web browser for GNOME Description : Epiphany is the web browser for the GNOME desktop. Its goal is to be simple and easy to use. Epiphany ties together many GNOME components in order to let you focus on the Web content, instead of the browser application.
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade epiphany' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html
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Name: epiphany
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 3.20.7
Release: 1.fc24
Summary: Web browser for GNOME
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