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A chromium security update has been released for Fedora 38.



[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: chromium-119.0.6045.159-2.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-5b46676afa
2023-11-26 03:04:45.599280
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Name : chromium
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 119.0.6045.159
Release : 2.fc38
URL : http://www.chromium.org/Home
Summary : A WebKit (Blink) powered web browser that Google doesn't want you to use
Description :
Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).

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Update Information:

update to 119.0.6045.159, upstream security release - High CVE-2023-5997, use
after free in Garbage Collection - High CVE-2023-6112, use after free in
Navigation ---- Fix bz#2240127, audio/video decode issue in chromium
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Nov 19 2023 Than Ngo [than@redhat.com] - 119.0.6045.159-2
- fix ffmpeg conflicts
* Wed Nov 15 2023 Than Ngo [than@redhat.com] - 119.0.6045.159-1
- update to 119.0.6045.159, upstream security release
High CVE-2023-5997, use after free in Garbage Collection
High CVE-2023-6112, use after free in Navigation
- add Requires/Conflicts for ABI break in fmpeg-free 6.0.1
- drop first_dts patch, reintroduce first_dts patch in ffmpeg-free-6.0.1
- fixed python3 syntaxWarning: invalid escape sequenc
- skip clang's patches for epel8 that now gets clang-16 update
* Mon Nov 13 2023 Than Ngo [than@redhat.com] - 119.0.6045.123-2
- fixed bz#2240127, Some h.264 mp4s do not play
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2240127 - Some h.264 mp4s do not play on fedora chromium, while they do on other chromium packages (i.e. rpm build from source, flatpak)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240127
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-5b46676afa' 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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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