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Fedora 10: FEDORA-2009-9494 Critical: Epiphany Issues Resolved

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Upgrade to Fedora 10 epiphany-2.24.3-10 addressing various security vulnerabilities from Firefox 3.0.14.
Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.0.14, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities...

Summary

Epiphany is a simple GNOME web browser based on the Mozilla rendering

engine.

Update Information:

Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.0.14, 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 critical software update Fedora Mozilla browser fix epiphany

Change Log

* Wed Sep 9 2009 Jan Horak - 2.24.3-10 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Aug 4 2009 Jan Horak - 2.24.3-9 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Jul 21 2009 Jan Horak - 2.24.3-8 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Thu Jun 11 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.24.3-7 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Apr 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.24.3-6 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Apr 21 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.24.3-5 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Mar 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.24.3-4 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 2.24.3-3 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.24.3-2 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Jan 16 2009 Matthias Clasen 2.24.3-1 - Update to 2.24.3 * Wed Jan 14 2009 Matěj Cepl 2.24.2.1-2 - Make epiphany own directories for plugins and extensions (#479921). * Mon Jan 5 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.24.2.1-1 - Update to 2.24.2.1 * Thu Dec 18 2008 Martin Stransky - 2.24.2-5 - build fix to configure * Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.24.2-4 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Nov 25 2008 Matthias Clasen - 2.24.2-3 - Update to 2.24.2

References


[ 1 ] Bug #521686 - CVE-2009-3070 Firefox 3.5 3.0.14 browser engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521686 [ 2 ] Bug #521687 - CVE-2009-3071 Firefox 3.5.2 3.0.14 browser engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521687 [ 3 ] Bug #521688 - CVE-2009-3072 Firefox 3.5.3 3.0.14 browser engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521688 [ 4 ] Bug #521690 - CVE-2009-3074 Firefox 3.5 3.0.14 JavaScript engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521690 [ 5 ] Bug #521691 - CVE-2009-3075 Firefox 3.5.2 3.0.14 JavaScript engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521691 [ 6 ] Bug #521692 - CVE-2009-3076 Firefox 3.0.14 Insufficient warning for PKCS11 module installation and removal https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521692 [ 7 ] Bug #521693 - CVE-2009-3077 Firefox 3.5.3 3.0.14 TreeColumns dangling pointer vulnerability https://bugzilla.r...

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Update Instructions

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

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Name: epiphany
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 2.24.3
Release: 10.fc10
URL: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps
Summary: GNOME web browser based on the Mozilla rendering engine

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Topics Covered

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