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Fedora 10: galeon-2.0.7-15.fc10 critical memory corruption in Firefox

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Calendar Grey November 4, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Galeon web browser has rolled out a vital update pertaining to Firefox, tackling several security vulnerabilities, most notably those related to potential memory leaks.
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

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 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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security advisory critical Fedora memory corruption Firefox gecko galeon

Change Log

* Tue Oct 27 2009 Jan Horak - 2.0.7-15 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Sep 9 2009 Jan Horak - 2.0.7-14 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Aug 4 2009 Jan Horak - 2.0.7-13 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Jul 21 2009 Jan Horak - 2.0.7-12 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Thu Jun 11 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.0.7-11 - Rebuild against newer gecko * 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 #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...

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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: 15.fc10
URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/galeon/
Summary: GNOME2 Web browser based on Mozilla

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