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A chromium security update has been released for Fedora 38.



[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: chromium-118.0.5993.117-1.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-a9062a0411
2023-10-29 01:32:10.883187
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Name : chromium
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 118.0.5993.117
Release : 1.fc38
URL : http://www.chromium.org/Home
Summary : A WebKit (Blink) powered web browser that Google doesn't want you to use
Description :
Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).

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Update Information:

update to 118.0.5993.117. Security release for CVE-2023-5472 ---- Update to
118.0.5993.88
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Oct 25 2023 Than Ngo [than@redhat.com] - 118.0.5993.117-1
- update to 118.0.5993.117
* Wed Oct 18 2023 Than Ngo [than@redhat.com] - 118.0.5993.88-1
- update to 118.0.5993.88
- cleanup the package dependencies
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2246173 - CVE-2023-5472 chromium: chromium-browser: Use after free in Profiles [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246173
[ 2 ] Bug #2246174 - CVE-2023-5472 chromium: chromium-browser: Use after free in Profiles [epel-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246174
[ 3 ] Bug #2246427 - Using this package, the only way to stay relatively current with security patches is to use the rawhide build. All other builds, including from testing, are consistently behind.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246427
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-a9062a0411' 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

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/keys
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