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Mageia: 2018-0393 Critical: Firefox 60.2.1 Security Fix for Browser

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Calendar Grey October 1, 2018
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent updates for the Firefox browser on Mageia focus on crucial security vulnerabilities while introducing a range of new functionalities and improvements.
Firefox 60 is now the only supported version of the ESR series and it brings a completely new browser engine, designed to take full advantage of the processing power in modern devi...

Summary

Firefox 60 is now the only supported version of the ESR series and it brings a completely new browser engine, designed to take full advantage of the processing power in modern devices. Firefox also now exclusively supports extensions built using the WebExtension API.
This update brings Firefox 60.2.1 along with the needed updated libraries : - NSS 3.36.5 (fixes CVE CVE-2018-12384) - Sqlite 3.22.0 - Hunspell 1.6.2

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23511

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12384

Resolution

SRPMS

- 6/core/firefox-60.2.1-1.mga6

- 6/core/firefox-l10n-60.2.1-1.mga6

- 6/core/nss-3.36.5-1.1.mga6

- 6/core/sqlite3-3.22.0-2.1.mga6

- 6/core/hunspell1.6-1.6.2-1.mga6

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Publication date: 01 Oct 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0393.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-12384

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