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Critical Update for Galeon Web Browser on Fedora 10 Released 2009-4083

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Calendar Grey April 27, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest update for the Galeon web browser on Fedora 10 tackles significant security vulnerabilities. Key enhancements and corrections have been implemented.
Update to Firefox 3.0.10 fixing one security issue: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/ Depending packages rebuilt against new Firefox are...

Summary

Galeon is a web browser built around Gecko (Mozilla's rendering

engine) and Necko (Mozilla's networking engine). It's a GNOME web

browser, designed to take advantage of as many GNOME technologies as

makes sense. Galeon was written to do just one thing - browse the web.

Update Information:

Update to Firefox 3.0.10 fixing one security issue: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/ Depending packages rebuilt against new Firefox are also included in this update. Additional bugs fixed in other packages: - totem: Fix YouTube plugin following web site changes

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security advisory Fedora bug fix critical update Mozilla web browser Galeon

Change Log

* Mon Apr 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.0.7-10 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Apr 21 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.0.7-9 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Mar 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.0.7-8 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 2.0.7-7 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Sun Feb 15 2009 Denis Leroy - 2.0.7-6 - Added upstream patch to use Gnome Print * Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.0.7-5 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.0.7-4 - Rebuild against newer gecko

References


[ 1 ] Bug #497447 - CVE-2009-1313 Firefox crash in nsTextFrame::ClearTextRun() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497447

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update galeon' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: galeon
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 2.0.7
Release: 10.fc10
URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/galeon/
Summary: GNOME2 Web browser based on Mozilla

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security advisory Fedora bug fix critical update Mozilla web browser Galeon

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