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Fedora 24 FEDORA-2016-ea3b7e6556 Moderate: Links Anonymous Instances Issue

fedora
Calendar Grey October 5, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Addresses a vulnerability concerning untracked sessions in the recent links enhancement for Fedora 24 applications.
Update to version 2.13

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 version 2.13. Fixes a security issue with the anonymous instances.

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora security fix links browser anonymous instances

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 24
Version: 2.13
Release: 1.fc24
URL: http://links.twibright.com/
Summary: Web browser running in both graphics and text mode

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora security fix links browser anonymous instances

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