Fedora 27: icecat Security Update
Summary
GNUZilla Icecat is a fully-free fork of Mozilla Firefox ESR.
Extensions included to this version of IceCat:
* LibreJS
GNU LibreJS aims to address the JavaScript problem described in Richard
Stallman's article The JavaScript Trap.
* SpyBlock
Blocks privacy trackers while in normal browsing mode, and all third party
requests when in private browsing mode. Based on Adblock Plus.
* AboutIceCat
Adds a custom "about:icecat" homepage with links to information about the
free software and privacy features in IceCat, and check-boxes to enable
and disable the ones more prone to break websites.
* HTML5-video-everywhere
Uses the native video player to play embedded videos from different sources
* Fingerprinting countermeasures: Fingerprinting is a series of techniques
allowing to uniquely identify a browser based on specific characteristics of
that particular instance (like what fonts are available in that machine).
Unlike cookies the user cannot opt-out of being tracked this way,
so the browser has to avoid giving away that kind of hints.
- Update to 52.5.3 - Patched for mozilla bug-1427870 (spectre mitigation)
su -c 'dnf upgrade icecat' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html
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/security/
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FEDORA-2018-16a76da6cc 2018-01-17 22:33:45.476936 Product : Fedora 27 Version : 52.5.3 Release : 2.fc27 URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ Summary : GNU version of Firefox browser Description : GNUZilla Icecat is a fully-free fork of Mozilla Firefox ESR. Extensions included to this version of IceCat: * LibreJS GNU LibreJS aims to address the JavaScript problem described in Richard Stallman's article The JavaScript Trap. * SpyBlock Blocks privacy trackers while in normal browsing mode, and all third party requests when in private browsing mode. Based on Adblock Plus. * AboutIceCat Adds a custom "about:icecat" homepage with links to information about the free software and privacy features in IceCat, and check-boxes to enable and disable the ones more prone to break websites. * HTML5-video-everywhere Uses the native video player to play embedded videos from different sources * Fingerprinting countermeasures: Fingerprinting is a series of techniques allowing to uniquely identify a browser based on specific characteristics of that particular instance (like what fonts are available in that machine). Unlike cookies the user cannot opt-out of being tracked this way, so the browser has to avoid giving away that kind of hints. - Update to 52.5.3 - Patched for mozilla bug-1427870 (spectre mitigation) su -c 'dnf upgrade icecat' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html 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/security/ package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org
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