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Fedora Linux 42 has received two security updates, one for Firefox and the other for libarchive:

Fedora 42 Update: firefox-142.0-1.fc42
Fedora 42 Update: libarchive-3.8.1-1.fc42




[SECURITY] Fedora 42 Update: firefox-142.0-1.fc42


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2025-e689575030
2025-08-20 01:06:39.883520+00:00
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Name : firefox
Product : Fedora 42
Version : 142.0
Release : 1.fc42
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:

Updated to new upstream release (142.0)
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Aug 12 2025 Martin Stransky [stransky@redhat.com] - 142.0-1
- Updated to 142.0
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-e689575030' 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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[SECURITY] Fedora 42 Update: libarchive-3.8.1-1.fc42


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2025-47e73aaaea
2025-08-20 01:06:39.883513+00:00
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Name : libarchive
Product : Fedora 42
Version : 3.8.1
Release : 1.fc42
URL : https://www.libarchive.org/
Summary : A library for handling streaming archive formats
Description :
Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several different
streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants, several cpio
formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. It can also write shar archives and
read ISO9660 CDROM images and ZIP archives.

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Update Information:

Rebase due to a lot of CVE fixes
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Aug 15 2025 Lukas Javorsky [ljavorsk@redhat.com] - 3.8.1-1
- Rebase to version 3.8.1
- Resolves: rhbz#2388646
* Tue Mar 25 2025 Lukas Javorsky [ljavorsk@redhat.com] - 3.7.8-1
- Rebase to version 3.7.8
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2371071 - CVE-2025-5914 libarchive: Double free at archive_read_format_rar_seek_data() in archive_read_support_format_rar.c [fedora-42]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2371071
[ 2 ] Bug #2388646 - Libarchive 3.8.1 is available; Many security updates missing
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2388646
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-47e73aaaea' 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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