why does ubuntu take so long to update firefox?
first of all, this isn't a rant... i'm just really curious as to why this is the case... BTW, i am speaking only of ubuntu 6.06 LTS as it's the only one i run at the moment...
other distros have firefox security updates out the door only a few days (at most) after mozilla publicly releases them... yet on ubuntu it sometimes takes WEEKS... what exactly is the deal here?? i mean, ubuntu is leaving us vulnerable to known exploits for a seriously considerable amount of time... :confused: |
Probably not "super-vulnerable":
Fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.1 MFSA 2006-76 XSS using outer window's Function object MFSA 2006-75 RSS Feed-preview referrer leak MFSA 2006-73 Mozilla SVG Processing Remote Code Execution MFSA 2006-72 XSS by setting img.src to javascript: URI MFSA 2006-71 LiveConnect crash finalizing JS objects MFSA 2006-70 Privilege escallation using watch point MFSA 2006-69 CSS cursor image buffer overflow (Windows only) MFSA 2006-68 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.9/1.8.1.1) There are a lot of posts asking the same thing. Debian had 2.0.0.1 in less than a week after the official Mozilla release of Firefox 2.0.0.1. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061205 Iceweasel/2.0.0.1 (Debian-2.0.0.1+dfsg-1) Perhaps one of the Ubuntu mailing lists or the ubuntu forum would result in a reasonable answer to what take them so long to updated it? Heck I don't get why it is tied into the ubuntu desktop they way it is,seems almost windows like to tie a browser into the OS/desktop. |
6.06 does not have ff2 in it. Could you elaborate on how you installed it? From what I understood, if one installs ff2 on 6.06 then you will not get automatic updates...
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got a USN email in my box 30 minutes ago...
looks like the fix has been released, at least for Ubuntu 6.10's Firefox 2.x.y.z: Code:
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okay, got the USN for 5.10 and 6.06 LTS 10 minutes ago...
Code:
=========================================================== anyone got any comments on that?? maybe ubuntu should go the way of the IceWeasel, hehe... :) |
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