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A firefox security update has been released for Fedora Linux 38.



[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: firefox-118.0.1-4.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-97eea79acb
2023-10-06 01:28:08.203762
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Name : firefox
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 118.0.1
Release : 4.fc38
URL : https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser
Description :
Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards
compliance, performance and portability.

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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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ChangeLog:

* Mon Oct 2 2023 Martin Stransky [stransky@redhat.com]- 118.0.1-4
- Updated man page
* Mon Oct 2 2023 Martin Stransky [stransky@redhat.com]- 118.0.1-3
- Avoid to launch Firefox by gnome-shell search
* Fri Sep 29 2023 Martin Stransky [stransky@redhat.com]- 118.0.1-2
- Use firefox.desktop again
* Fri Sep 29 2023 Martin Stransky [stransky@redhat.com]- 118.0.1-1
- Updated to 118.0.1
* Wed Sep 27 2023 Neal Gompa [ngompa@fedoraproject.org] - 118.0.1-1
- Use system libraries for AV1, VP8, VP9, and WebP
* Wed Sep 27 2023 Martin Stransky [stransky@redhat.com]- 118.0-2
- Fixed Gnome search provider
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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
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-97eea79acb' 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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