Fedora 35: FEDORA-2022-c8a13294bc Critical: Firefox Vulnerability Patch

Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).

This is probably not the update you want. Let me be clear, it does fix the

security vulnerabilities in this list: CVE-2020-16044 CVE-2021-21118

CVE-2021-21119 CVE-2021-21120 CVE-2021-21121 CVE-2021-21122 CVE-2021-21123

CVE-2021-21124 CVE-2021-21125 CVE-2021-21126 CVE-2021-21127 CVE-2021-21129

CVE-2021-21130 CVE-2021-21131 CVE-2021-21132 CVE-2021-21133 CVE-2021-21134

CVE-2021-21135 CVE-2021-21136 CVE-2021-21137 CVE-2021-21138 CVE-2021-21139

CVE-2021-21140 CVE-2021-21141 CVE-2021-21117 CVE-2021-21128 But it will not

behave like Google Chrome does. Google has announced that it is cutting off

access to the Sync and "other Google Exclusive" APIs from all builds except

Google Chrome. This will make the Fedora Chromium build significantly less

functional (along with every other distro packaged Chromium). It is noteworthy

that Google _gave_ the builders of distribution Chromium packages these access

rights back in 2013 via API keys, specifically so that we could have open source

builds of Chromium with (near) feature parity to Chrome. And now they're taking

it away. The reasoning given for this change? Google does not want users to be

able to "access their personal Chrome Sync data (such as bookmarks) ... with a

non-Google, Chromium-based browser." They're not closing a security hole,

they're just requiring that everyone use Chrome. Or to put it bluntly, they do

not want you to access their Google API functionality without using proprietary

software (Google Chrome). There is no good reason for Google to do this, other

than to force people to use Chrome. I gave a lot of thought to whether I wanted

to continue to maintain the Chromium package in Fedora, given that many (most?)

users will be confused/annoyed when API functionality like sync and geolocation

stops working for no good reason. Ultimately, I decided to continue for now,

because there were at least some users who didn't mind, and if I stopped,

someone else would start over and run blindly into this problem. I would say

that you might want to reconsider whether you want to use Chromium or not. If

you want the full "Google" experience, you can run the proprietary Chrome. If

you want to use a FOSS browser that isn't hobbled, there is a Firefox package in

Fedora. Oh, last, but not least, Google isn't shutting off the API access until

March 15, 2021, but I have gone ahead and disabled it starting with this update.

I'd rather you read about it here (even though most users will never see this)

than have it just happen.

* Wed Jan 20 2021 Tom Callaway - 88.0.4324.96-1

- 88 goes from beta to stable

- disable use of api keys (Google shut off API access)

[ 1 ] Bug #1918218 - CVE-2021-21118 chromium-browser: Insufficient data validation in V8

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918218

[ 2 ] Bug #1918219 - CVE-2021-21119 chromium-browser: Use after free in Media

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918219

[ 3 ] Bug #1918220 - CVE-2021-21120 chromium-browser: Use after free in WebSQL

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918220

[ 4 ] Bug #1918222 - CVE-2021-21121 chromium-browser: Use after free in Omnibox

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918222

[ 5 ] Bug #1918223 - CVE-2021-21122 chromium-browser: Use after free in Blink

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918223

[ 6 ] Bug #1918224 - CVE-2021-21123 chromium-browser: Insufficient data validation in File System API

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918224

[ 7 ] Bug #1918225 - CVE-2021-21124 chromium-browser: Potential user after free in Speech Recognizer

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918225

[ 8 ] Bug #1918226 - CVE-2021-21125 chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in File System API

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918226

[ 9 ] Bug #1918227 - CVE-2021-21126 chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918227

[ 10 ] Bug #1918228 - CVE-2021-21127 chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918228

[ 11 ] Bug #1918229 - CVE-2021-21129 chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in File System API

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918229

[ 12 ] Bug #1918230 - CVE-2021-21130 chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in File System API

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918230

[ 13 ] Bug #1918231 - CVE-2021-21131 chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in File System API

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918231

[ 14 ] Bug #1918232 - CVE-2021-21132 chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in DevTools

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918232

[ 15 ] Bug #1918233 - CVE-2021-21133 chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in Downloads

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918233

[ 16 ] Bug #1918235 - CVE-2021-21134 chromium-browser: Incorrect security UI in Page Info

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918235

[ 17 ] Bug #1918236 - CVE-2021-21135 chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in Performance API

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918236

[ 18 ] Bug #1918237 - CVE-2021-21136 chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in WebView

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918237

[ 19 ] Bug #1918238 - CVE-2021-21137 chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in DevTools

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918238

[ 20 ] Bug #1918239 - CVE-2021-21138 chromium-browser: Use after free in DevTools

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918239

[ 21 ] Bug #1918240 - CVE-2021-21139 chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in iframe sandbox

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918240

[ 22 ] Bug #1918241 - CVE-2021-21140 chromium-browser: Uninitialized Use in USB

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918241

[ 23 ] Bug #1918242 - CVE-2021-21141 chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in File System API

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918242

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-b7cc24375b' 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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