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Fedora 27 FEDORA-2018-276558ff6f Critical Timing Attack in Firefox

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Calendar Grey January 8, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential security patches for Mozilla Firefox in Fedora 27 tackle Meltdown and Spectre vulnerability exploits.
- Update to 57.0.4 - Security fixes to address the Meltdown and Spectre timing attacks - - Require new nss 3.34 (fixed rhbz#1531031) - Disabled ARM on all Fedoras due to rhbz#1523...

Summary

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

compliance, performance and portability.

- Update to 57.0.4 - Security fixes to address the Meltdown and Spectre timing

attacks - - Require new nss 3.34 (fixed rhbz#1531031) - Disabled ARM

on all Fedoras due to rhbz#1523912

su -c 'dnf upgrade firefox' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 57.0.4
Release: 1.fc27
Summary: Mozilla Firefox Web browser

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