Fedora 10 FEDORA-2009-3100 Critical: Firefox Memory Flaw Exploit

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

compliance, performance and portability.

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 - 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

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

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

available at .

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