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Fedora 37: FEDORA-2023-09ec498a2a Critical: Firefox Security Update

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Calendar Grey October 10, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential Firefox patch for Fedora 37 addresses instability issues and enhances security—apply it immediately for better functionality.
This update is intended to fix all the issues with broken launchers and KDE crashes that were caused by changes to the .desktop files in recent Firefox updates

Summary

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

compliance, performance and portability.

Update Information:

This update is intended to fix all the issues with broken launchers and KDE crashes that were caused by changes to the .desktop files in recent Firefox updates. Please report any remaining issues. ---- This update provides the latest release of Firefox, with an important security fix. We highly recommend you install this update immediately and restart all Firefox instances.

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security advisory software update Fedora critical fix browser fix Firefox KDE crash

Change Log

* Fri Oct 6 2023 Alessandro Astone - 118.0.1-7 - Don't include -x11 and -wayland desktop files in the main package (rhbz#2242523) * Fri Oct 6 2023 Martin Stransky - 118.0.1-6 - Removed DBusActivatable flag from desktop file as it crashes KDE (rhbz#2242454). * Thu Oct 5 2023 Kalev Lember - 118.0.1-5 - Fix flatpak build * Mon Oct 2 2023 Martin Stransky - 118.0.1-4 - Updated man page * Mon Oct 2 2023 Martin Stransky - 118.0.1-3 - Avoid to launch Firefox by gnome-shell search * Fri Sep 29 2023 Martin Stransky - 118.0.1-2 - Use firefox.desktop again * Fri Sep 29 2023 Martin Stransky - 118.0.1-1 - Updated to 118.0.1 * Wed Sep 27 2023 Neal Gompa - 118.0.1-1 - Use system libraries for AV1, VP8, VP9, and WebP * Wed Sep 27 2023 Martin Stransky - 118.0-2 - Fixed Gnome search provider

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2241122 - CVE-2023-5129 firefox: libwebp: out-of-bounds write with a specially crafted WebP lossless file [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241122 [ 2 ] Bug #2242454 - DBusActivatable is not implemented correctly https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242454 [ 3 ] Bug #2242523 - Too many firefox launchers are preinstalled https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242523

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-09ec498a2a' 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: firefox
Product: Fedora 37
Version: 118.0.1
Release: 7.fc37
URL: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/?redirect_source=mozilla-org
Summary: Mozilla Firefox Web browser

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security advisory software update Fedora critical fix browser fix Firefox KDE crash

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