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Fedora 40: ICECAT 2025-bca38111fc critical: Use-After-Free issue

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Calendar Grey April 30, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The newly released GNU IceCat update for Fedora 40 tackles serious security flaws while incorporating notable improvements.
Rebuild with pregenerated cbindgen

Summary

GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox ESR browser.

Extensions included to this version of IceCat:

* LibreJS

GNU LibreJS aims to address the JavaScript problem described in the article

"The JavaScript Trap" of Richard Stallman.

* JShelter: Mitigates potential threats from JavaScript, including fingerprinting,

tracking, and data collection. Slightly modifies the results of API calls,

differently on different domains, so that the cross-site fingerprint is not

stable. Applies security counter-measures that are likely not to break web pages.

Allows fine-grained control over the restrictions and counter-measures applied

to each domain.

* A set of companion extensions for LibreJS by Nathan Nichols

are pre-installed, and provide workarounds to use some services at USPS,

RSF.org, SumOfUs.org, pay.gov, McDonalds, goteo.org and Google Docs

without using nonfree JavaScript.

* A series of configuration changes and tweaks were applied to ensure that

IceCat does not initiate network connections that the user has not explicitly

requested. This implies not downloading feeds, updates, blacklists or any

other similar data needed during startup.

Update Information:

Rebuild with pregenerated cbindgen

Change Log

* Sun Apr 20 2025 Antonio Trande - 2:115.22.0-2.rh1 - Upload regenerated built-in cbindgen * Fri Apr 4 2025 Antonio Trande - 2:115.22.0-1.rh1 - Release 115.22.0 * Tue Mar 4 2025 Antonio Trande - 2:115.21.0-1.rh1 - Release 115.21.0

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2357926 - CVE-2025-3416 icecat: rust-openssl Use-After-Free in `Md::fetch` and `Cipher::fetch` [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2357926 [ 2 ] Bug #2357938 - CVE-2025-3416 icecat: rust-openssl Use-After-Free in `Md::fetch` and `Cipher::fetch` [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2357938

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-bca38111fc' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: icecat
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 115.22.0
Release: 2.rh1.fc40
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Summary: GNU version of Firefox browser

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