Can I get more info on why these are showing up? I’ve never seen such a thing on F-Droid before.
Fennec and Mull 129.0.2 in F-Droid.org repository have 42 known security issues
Ref: https://forum.f-droid.org/t/fennec-vulnerability-recommended-to-uninstall/
The issue preventing updates should be resolved soon thanks to @linsui fixing it!
What is wrong with updating?
it was mentioned in a This Week In F-droid blog post around September. basically google fucked up an important development library, and any firefox forks (possibly some other apps too) could not be built anymore normally. of course google was unwilling to fix the issue, so linsui (and F-droid member) fixed the build process somehow, possibly temporarily.
you may ask how is this not a problem for the official release of the firefox app, and my answer is that they probably build this component for themselves, and fixed the problem in house (if they had it at all)
Right, but that comment that I quoted from the F-Droid forum makes it sound like there is some sort of issue updating to a build with the vulnerability patched. My Mull is on 131.0.3, and I do not remember having an issue updating it.
There was a critical vulnerability found on Firefox some days ago: CVE-2024-9680. Fennec and Mull are forks of Firefox. They both fixed this issue already in their source code, BUT there is a problem preventing F-Droid from building these updated, fixed versions.
In the case of Mull, you can download the updated version from the DivestOS F-Droid repository: https://divestos.org/fdroid/official/, but if you are currently using the F-Droid version you will need to uninstall it first, since they have different signatures.
The current version has a critical security vulnerability (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-51/) but to fix it the new version compiled against libclang version 27 but Google decided to remove it from Android so the building pipeline needs to be adjusted.
There’s a long discussion: https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild/-/merge_requests/63 , about building the newer version
In the meanwhile the app is a security hazard.
There should really be push notifications around installed apps with known vulns… Its tracked here: https://forum.f-droid.org/t/vulnerability-warnings-in-f-droid-app/20505
Could someone with a gitlab account open a feature request on the f droid repo?
I tried to open an account but it required email + cell phone (it picked up my VoIP number) and a credit card…
EDIT: I generated an RSS feed based off of Mozilla’s known vuln list. If anyone knows of a better way to do this, please let me know!
Are these two from the same maintainer? If not, considering that they both use Firefox Android as their base, does this mean there is a vulnerability in Firefox Android?
There was and it was fixed by the looks of it. Guessing these apps have not urgently pulled the fixes in and released an update, so F-droid is urging people not to use the apps until so
Yes, there was a remote code execution vulnerability in the CSS engine of firefox a little while ago. If you’re on desktop version 131 or lower, update to 131.0.3 when possible. I don’t know how the versioning works for the Android versions here…
shit, woops. I’ve got memory issues, my bad. Let me fix that rq. Thanks for catching it.