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Fedora 10: 2009-7961 Critical: Firefox Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey July 23, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest upgrade resolves several vulnerabilities in Chrome for Ubuntu 18, enhancing reliability and speed.
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

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards

compliance, performance and portability.

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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Change Log

* Tue Jul 21 2009 Jan Horak - 3.0.12-1 - Update to 3.0.12 * Thu Jun 11 2009 Christopher Aillon - 3.0.11-1 - Update to 3.0.11 * Mon Apr 27 2009 Jan Horak - 3.0.10-1 - Update to 3.0.10 * Tue Apr 21 2009 Christopher Aillon - 3.0.9-1 - Update to 3.0.9 * Fri Mar 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 3.0.8-1 - Update to 3.0.8 * Wed Mar 4 2009 Jan Horak - 3.0.7-1 - Update to 3.0.7 * Thu Feb 26 2009 Jan Horak - 3.0.6-2 - Fixed spelling mistake in firefox.sh.in * Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 3.0.6-1 - Update to 3.0.6 * Wed Jan 7 2009 Jan Horak - 3.0.5-2 - Fixed wrong LANG and LC_MESSAGES variables interpretation (#441973) in startup script. * Tue Dec 16 2008 Christopher Aillon 3.0.5-1 - Update to 3.0.5 * Thu Nov 13 2008 Jan Horak 3.0.4-2 - Removed firefox-2.0-getstartpage.patch patch - Start page is set by different way

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 firefox' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: firefox
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 3.0.12
Release: 1.fc10
URL: Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser

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