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Fedora 26: FEDORA-2017-b5899f809e Moderate: Links Browser Security Update

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Calendar Grey April 1, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest revision of the links web browser on Fedora 26 addresses several security vulnerabilities and improves overall performance.
Update to 2.14.

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 2.14.

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1417586 - links: Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2.14 release [epel-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1417586 [ 2 ] Bug #1417587 - links: Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2.14 release [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1417587 [ 3 ] Bug #1400176 - links-2.14 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400176

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade links' 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: links
Product: Fedora 26
Version: 2.14
Release: 1.fc26
URL: http://links.twibright.com/
Summary: Web browser running in both graphics and text mode

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security advisory security issue update Fedora software upgrade web browser links browser

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