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Fedora 10 FEDORA-2009-3100 Critical: Firefox Memory Corruption Issue

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Urgent security notice for Fedora 10 regarding memory vulnerabilities in Firefox; please ensure your evolution-rss is updated immediately.
A memory corruption flaw was discovered in the way Firefox handles XML files containing an XSLT transform

Summary

This is an evolution plugin which enables evolution to read rss feeds.

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 - 0.1.2-6

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 0.1.2-5

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.1.2-4

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 0.1.2-3

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Nov 26 2008 Lucian Langa - 0.1.2-2

- add intltool as BR

* Wed Nov 19 2008 Lucian Langa - 0.1.2-1

- new upstream 0.1.2

su -c 'yum update evolution-rss' 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: 0.1.2
Release: 6.fc10
URL: Summary : Evolution RSS Reader

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