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Re: Unpatched security flaws in GNU IceCat 38
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: Unpatched security flaws in GNU IceCat 38 |
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Thu, 4 Aug 2016 11:18:20 +0200 |
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Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> 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.
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> 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