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Fedora 10 FEDORA-2009-3100 Critical: Firefox Memory Issues

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 10 has rolled out an update for Firefox, addressing critical memory flaws that pose potential remote code execution threats.
A memory corruption flaw was discovered in the way Firefox handles XML files containing an XSLT transform

Summary

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

engine.

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 - 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

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

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 10
Version: 2.24.3
Release: 4.fc10
Summary: GNOME web browser based on the Mozilla rendering engine

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