Re: Unpatched security flaws in GNU IceCat 38

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi Mark,

On Wed, 03 Aug 2016 23:06:17 -0400
Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm sorry to report that GNU IceCat 38 can no longer be safely used, due
> to critical security flaws that are believed to allow remote code
> execution.  I was unable to backport upstream fixes from 45.3 to 38.
> 
> Until IceCat 45.3 is available, I recommend that you use Epiphany.

Thanks for the heads-up!

However:

$ guix package -i epiphany --keep-failed
[...]
Downloading invm90…-epiphany-3.20.1 (9.3MiB installed)...
 epiphany-3.20.1                            734KiB/s 00:04 | 2.6MiB transferred
grafting '/gnu/store/da02rjcnykk7nxq2819paqp6cs7w5caf-libwnck-3.14.1' -> 
'/gnu/store/bvjs813j4jmpdlm4q6gcjj65lwkfbipy-libwnck-3.14.1'...
ERROR: In procedure char-set-contains?: Wrong type argument in position 2 
(expecting character): note: keeping build directory 
`/tmp/guix-build-libwnck-3.14.1.drv-0'
builder for `/gnu/store/1x5zl6wssilbdpmadmxzp14qv7rjapv9-libwnck-3.14.1.drv' 
failed due to signal 11 (Segmentation fault)
cannot build derivation 
`/gnu/store/9zihnrz2q6vdkw6kgskdl8pzjwn2kqdz-epiphany-3.20.1.drv': 1 
dependencies couldn't be built