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Lookup for vulnerabilities affecting packages.

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    "summary": "A mechanism where disruption of the loading of a new web page can cause the previous page's favicon and SSL indicator to not be reset when the new page is loaded. *Note: this issue only affects Firefox for Android. Desktop Firefox is unaffected.*",
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