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From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unpatched security flaws in GNU IceCat 38
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 11:18:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <idjmvkssxib.fsf@bimsb-sys02.mdc-berlin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lh0dz106.fsf@netris.org>


Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> 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.

Thanks, Mark, for the heads-up.

Since our package for Conkeror also uses IceCat under the hood I suppose
our version of Conkeror also cannot be safely used at this point.

~~ Ricardo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-04  9:18 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
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 [this message]
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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