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So I went to update my apps and was greeted with these warnings in FDroid. A quick and basic search online and in various communities yielded no news regarding a major compromise in Fennec and Mull, does anyone know more about this or have you seen any news regarding a vulnerability? Curious if this is a false positive or if there is something going on with firefox forks.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

It's still waiting on a repackaging effort

https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild/-/merge_requests/63

Looks like the latest hurdle is that Firefox is relying on some Google-specific variables being present, which fails on AOSP

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mull at least has been fixed in the divestOS repo. I can't speak to fennec as I don't use it.

The version in the f-droid main repo is behind because of Mozilla changing their repo system thus screwing with the build process and at least for now currently requiring a compiler that doesn't meet F-Droid's (IMO slightly ridiculous) standards for allowable software.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks! Added their repo and reinstalled. Secure again. 😎

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Mull was fixed in the DivestOS repository as early as October 17th, but to do this you need to add to F-Droid and reinstall Mull.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I get an incompatibility error after adding their repo to FDroid.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Signatures are different. Uninstall old FDroid version first

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks! Trying that now.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Or you can install directly from Divest via FFupdater, or from their github (I use Obtainium for that).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How do you use obtainium to download from their repo? I'm trying but can't seem to make it work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When you got add the repo in Obtainium in the overrides section choose Fdroid Third party repo. Then in the app name field type mull

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I apologize. I didn't see that my Obtainium was actually pulling from the fdroid repo. I was able to add it to Obtainium from the Divest repo: https://divestos.org/fdroid/official/us.spotco.fennec_dos_21320020.apk

But I really doubt that it will trigger updates, since it's tied to the current version apk.

I update my browsers and K9 via FFupdater, that's where my confusion came from. And I thank you for calling me our, I just removed Mull from my Obtainium.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Ah phew, was wondering why I hadn't even had the notification.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Mull from divestos repo works fine! Use FFupdater to install it or link the fdroid repo to your fdroid

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Mull is fine if you use the divestos repo directly, but the f-droid version is behind

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It is the recent use after free vuln actively exploited found in FF, which both Fennec and Mull relies as upstream. This compounds on changes made to Android NDK and the source of FF move into the monorepo, making them harder to build. Hence, they're still vulnerable to the attack.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago

found in Fx*

the source of Fx*

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Had the same, promptly uninstalled, didnt find infos.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

True, but the config settings should be good Form the get go, that's the reason the app exitists after all and ublck and noscript are installed fast. But thanks for the tip :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Haven't read so can't tell you but you will find info at https://leminal.space/post/11699480