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Fedora 10: 2009:7961 Critical: Devhelp Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey July 23, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Patch resolves several vulnerabilities in devhelp and Firefox. Critical for ensuring system safety and defense.
Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.0.12, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities...

Summary

An API document browser for GNOME 2.

Update Information:

Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.0.12, 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

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Change Log

* Tue Jul 21 2009 Jan Horak - 0.22-10 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Thu Jun 11 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.22-9 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Apr 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.22-8 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Apr 21 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.22-7 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Mar 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.22-6 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 0.22-5 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Feb 16 2009 - Bastien Nocera - 0.22-4 - Remove gecko BRs - Fix displaying web pages, WebKit doesn't like local filenames as URIs * Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.22-3 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 0.22-2 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Dec 1 2008 Matthew Barnes - 0.22-1 - Update to 0.22 - Add BR: WebKit-gtk-devel

References


[ 1 ] Bug #512131 - CVE-2009-2463 Mozilla Base64 decoding crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512131 [ 2 ] Bug #512133 - CVE-2009-2464 Mozilla crash with multiple RDFs in XUL tree https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512133 [ 3 ] Bug #512135 - CVE-2009-2465 Mozilla double frame construction crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512135 [ 4 ] Bug #512128 - CVE-2009-2462 Mozilla Browser engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512128 [ 5 ] Bug #512136 - CVE-2009-2466 Mozilla JavaScript engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512136 [ 6 ] Bug #512137 - CVE-2009-2467 Mozilla remote code execution during Flash player unloading https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512137 [ 7 ] Bug #512142 - CVE-2009-2469 Mozilla remote code execution using watch and __defineSetter__ on SVG element https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512142 [ 8 ] Bug ...

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Update Instructions

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

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Name: devhelp
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 0.22
Release: 10.fc10
URL:
Summary: API document browser

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