Fedora: 2009-3100 Critical: Firefox Memory Issue and Remote Code Execution

An API document browser for GNOME 2.

A memory corruption flaw was discovered in the way Firefox handles XML files

containing an XSLT transform. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash

Firefox or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox.

(CVE-2009-1169) A flaw was discovered in the way Firefox handles certain XUL

garbage collection events. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash

Firefox or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox.

(CVE-2009-1044)

* 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

su -c 'yum update devhelp' at the command line.

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