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A firefox security update has been released for Fedora 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: firefox-98.0-3.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-42ea499a7d
2022-03-17 18:37:10.061250
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Name : firefox
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 98.0
Release : 3.fc36
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:

This update provides the latest release of Firefox, with many bug fixes
including critical security issues. It also includes updates to gcc and annobin
which were necessary to build Firefox, with the following fixes: * fix up
promoted SUBREG handling (#2045160, PR rtl-optimization/104839) * fix up check
for asm goto (PR rtl-optimization/104777) * Upstream bugs
(  http://gcc.gnu.org/PRNNNNN) fixed: 70077, 79493, 80270, 84519, 87496, 88134,
90148, 91384, 96526, 99297, 99555, 99585, 100400, 100407, 100541, 100757,
101325, 101636, 101983, 102276, 102429, 103037, 103302, 103443, 103521, 103836,
103845, 103856, 103984, 104061, 104121, 104131, 104132, 104133, 104154, 104208,
104381, 104430, 104434, 104489, 104529, 104533, 104540, 104550, 104552, 104558,
104573, 104589, 104601, 104602, 104618, 104619, 104627, 104633, 104637, 104644,
104648, 104656, 104659, 104664, 104667, 104674, 104675, 104676, 104677, 104679,
104681, 104682, 104686, 104687, 104698, 104700, 104704, 104715, 104716, 104721,
104724, 104725, 104726, 104727, 104728, 104730, 104732, 104736, 104748, 104757,
104758, 104761, 104775, 104779, 104781, 104782, 104784, 104791, 104794, 104797,
104807, 104825, 104838
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Mar 16 2022 Martin Stransky - 98.0-3
- Added a workaround for rhbz#2063961
* Wed Mar 2 2022 Martin Stransky - 98.0-2
- Added support for ffmpeg 5.0
- Spec tweaks
- Updated to Build 3
* Tue Mar 1 2022 Martin Stransky - 98.0-1
- Updated to 98.0
* Mon Feb 21 2022 Jan Grulich - 97.0.1-2
- Backport WebRTC changes to PipeWire/Wayland screen sharing support
* Fri Feb 18 2022 Martin Stransky - 97.0.1-1
- Updated to 97.0.1
- GCC 12 build fixes
* Tue Feb 8 2022 Martin Stransky - 97.0-1
- Updated to 97.0
* Mon Jan 31 2022 Martin Stransky - 96.0.3-1
- Updated to 96.0.3
* Tue Jan 25 2022 Parag Nemade - 96.0.1-3
- Update hunspell-dir path
F36 Change   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Hunspell_dictionary_dir_change
* Thu Jan 20 2022 Fedora Release Engineering - 96.0.1-2
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Jan 18 2022 Martin Stransky - 96.0.1-1
- Updated to 96.0.1
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2045160 - Cython: FTBFS in Fedora rawhide/f36 ppc64le
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2045160
[ 2 ] Bug #2045380 - firefox: FTBFS in Fedora rawhide/f36
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2045380
[ 3 ] Bug #2045404 - game-music-emu: FTBFS in Fedora rawhide/f36
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2045404
[ 4 ] Bug #2056613 - gcc-12.0.1-0.8.fc36 gives wrong -Wdangling-pointer warnings related to `for(;;)`
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2056613
[ 5 ] Bug #2057193 - f36 composes still have firefox 96, f34 f35 have firefox 97
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2057193
[ 6 ] Bug #2057492 - internal compiler error by kstars build with gcc-12.0.1-0.8.fc37.ppc64le
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2057492
[ 7 ] Bug #2060755 - Firefox: GCC 12 linking error
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2060755
[ 8 ] Bug #2063961 - Fedora ARM - Firefox fails to open on aarch64 Workstation
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2063961
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-42ea499a7d' 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

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