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Fedora 10: FEDORA-2009-10981 Moderate: Firefox Memory Corruption

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Calendar Grey November 4, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The upgrade to Firefox 3.0.15 in Fedora addresses various vulnerabilities as outlined in the relevant upstream alerts.
Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.0.15, 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 3.0.15, 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 update Fedora memory corruption Firefox

Change Log

* Mon Oct 26 2009 Jan Horak - 3.0.15-1 - Update to 3.0.15 * Mon Sep 7 2009 Jan Horak - 3.0.14-1 - Update to 3.0.14 * Tue Aug 4 2009 Martin Stransky - 3.0.13-1 - Update to 3.0.13 * 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 #530567 - CVE-2009-3380 Firefox crashes with evidence of memory corruption https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530567 [ 2 ] Bug #530569 - CVE-2009-3382 Firefox crashes with evidence of memory corruption https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530569 [ 3 ] Bug #530168 - CVE-2009-3376 Firefox download filename spoofing with RTL override https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530168 [ 4 ] Bug #530167 - CVE-2009-3375 Firefox cross-origin data theft through document.getSelection() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530167 [ 5 ] Bug #530162 - CVE-2009-1563 Firefox heap buffer overflow in string to number conversion https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530162 [ 6 ] Bug #530157 - CVE-2009-3374 Firefox chrome privilege escalation in XPCVariant::VariantDataToJS() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530157 [ 7 ] Bug #530156 - CVE-2009-3373 Firefox heap buffer overflow in GIF color m...

Read the Full Advisory

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 .

Name: firefox
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 3.0.15
Release: 1.fc10
URL: Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser

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Topics Covered

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