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Fedora 10: 2009-10981 Moderate: Blam Memory Corruption in Firefox

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Calendar Grey November 4, 2009
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Upgrade to Firefox 3.0.15 to tackle various security issues on Fedora 10, ensuring improved safeguarding.
Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.0.15, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities...

Summary

Blam is a tool that helps you keep track of the growing

number of news feeds distributed as RSS. Blam lets you

subscribe to any number of feeds and provides an easy to

use and clean interface to stay up to date

Update Information:

Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.0.15, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/ Update also includes all packages depending on gecko-libs rebuilt against new version of Firefox / XULRunner.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update Fedora memory corruption Firefox blam

Change Log

* Tue Oct 27 2009 Jan Horak - 1.8.5-15 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Sep 9 2009 Jan Horak - 1.8.5-14 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Aug 4 2009 Jan Horak - 1.8.5-13 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Jul 21 2009 Jan Horak - 1.8.5-12 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Thu Jun 11 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.8.5-11 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Apr 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.8.5-10 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Apr 21 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.8.5-9 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Mar 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.8.5-8 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 1.8.5-7 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.8.5-6 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 1.8.5-5 - Rebuild against newer gecko

References


[ 1 ] Bug #530567 - CVE-2009-3380 Firefox crashes with evidence of memory corruption https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530567 [ 2 ] Bug #530569 - CVE-2009-3382 Firefox crashes with evidence of memory corruption https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530569 [ 3 ] Bug #530168 - CVE-2009-3376 Firefox download filename spoofing with RTL override https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530168 [ 4 ] Bug #530167 - CVE-2009-3375 Firefox cross-origin data theft through document.getSelection() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530167 [ 5 ] Bug #530162 - CVE-2009-1563 Firefox heap buffer overflow in string to number conversion https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530162 [ 6 ] Bug #530157 - CVE-2009-3374 Firefox chrome privilege escalation in XPCVariant::VariantDataToJS() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530157 [ 7 ] Bug #530156 - CVE-2009-3373 Firefox heap buffer overflow in GIF color m...

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Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update blam' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: blam
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 1.8.5
Release: 15.fc10
URL: Summary : An RSS/RDF feed reader

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update Fedora memory corruption Firefox blam

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