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Mull & Fennec Vulnerability (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 58 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 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] 11 points 4 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 4 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 4 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 3 weeks ago

Thank you!

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

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Signatures are different. Uninstall old FDroid version first

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

Thanks! Trying that now.