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Fedora 39: FEDORA-2023-bbb8d72c6f Important Security Fix for Firefox

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Calendar Grey October 5, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Ensure safety with the newest Firefox release on Fedora 39. Critical security enhancements to improve your online experience.
This update provides the latest release of Firefox, with an important security fix

Summary

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

compliance, performance and portability.

Update Information:

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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Change Log

* 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 #2241187 - Update Firefox in Fedora 39 Final to fix CVE-2023-5169, CVE-2023-5171, CVE-2023-5217 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241187

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-bbb8d72c6f' 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 39
Version: 118.0.1
Release: 4.fc39
URL: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/?redirect_source=mozilla-org
Summary: Mozilla Firefox Web browser

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