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Fedora 10: Important Update for Galeon 2.0.7-9 Web Browser Released

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Calendar Grey April 24, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest update for Galeon on Fedora 10 addresses various security vulnerabilities, enhancing both stability and performance. Discover more details.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/

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:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/

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Change Log

* 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 #496252 - CVE-2009-1302 Firefox 3 Layout engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496252 [ 2 ] Bug #496253 - CVE-2009-1303 Firefox 2 and 3 Layout engine crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496253 [ 3 ] Bug #496255 - CVE-2009-1304 Firefox 3 JavaScript engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496255 [ 4 ] Bug #496256 - CVE-2009-1305 Firefox 2 and 3 JavaScript engine crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496256 [ 5 ] Bug #486704 - CVE-2009-0652 firefox: does not properly prevent the literal rendering of homoglyph characters in IDN domain names (spoof URLs and conduct phishing attacks) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486704 [ 6 ] Bug #496262 - CVE-2009-1306 Firefox jar: scheme ignores the content-disposition: header on the inner URI https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496262 [ 7 ] Bug #496263 - CVE-2009-1307 Firefox Same-origin violati...

Read the Full Advisory

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

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