From: Mike Gerwitz <mtg@gnu.org>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unpatched security flaws in GNU IceCat 38
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2016 23:52:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpjxdwdb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lh0dz106.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Wed, 03 Aug 2016 23:06:17 -0400")
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Mark:
On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 23:06:17 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> I'm sorry to report that GNU IceCat 38 can no longer be safely used, due
> to critical security flaws that are believed to allow remote code
> execution. I was unable to backport upstream fixes from 45.3 to 38.
>
> Until IceCat 45.3 is available, I recommend that you use Epiphany.
Could you elaborate? I assume you're referencing this:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/#firefoxesr45.2
Are you going to be publishing an announcement about this? Sorry if I
missed it; gnu.org/s/icecat doesn't mention anything.
--
Mike Gerwitz
Free Software Hacker+Activist | GNU Maintainer & Volunteer
https://mikegerwitz.com | GPG Key ID: 0x8EE30EAB
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-04 3:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-04 3:06 Unpatched security flaws in GNU IceCat 38 Mark H Weaver
2016-08-04 3:52 ` Mike Gerwitz [this message]
2016-08-04 7:29 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-04 8:27 ` Andreas Enge
2016-08-04 7:16 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-04 9:18 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-04 12:43 ` ng0
2016-10-12 5:42 ` GNU IceCat 45 beta now available in Guix Mark H Weaver
2016-10-12 9:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-12 12:19 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2016-10-12 14:32 ` Leo Famulari
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