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Fedora 10: 2009-1398 Critical Update for Firefox 3.0.6 Security Patch

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The latest upgrade to Firefox 3.0.6/XULRunner 1.9.0.6 for Fedora 10 addresses numerous security vulnerabilities. A restart is necessary following the installation process.
Update to the new upstream Firefox 3.0.6 / XULRunner 1.9.0.6 fixing multiple security issues.

Summary

The gnome-python-extra package contains the source packages for additional

Python bindings for GNOME. It should be used together with gnome-python.

Update to the new upstream Firefox 3.0.6 / XULRunner 1.9.0.6 fixing multiple

security issues: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/ This update also contains new

builds of all applications depending on Gecko libraries, built against the new

version, including the latest google gadgets upstream release. See

;r=1087 for details. Note:

after the updated packages are installed, Firefox must be restarted for the

update to take effect.

* Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.19.1-26

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.19.1-25

- Rebuild against newer gecko

[ 1 ] Bug #483139 - CVE-2009-0352 Firefox layout crashes with evidence of memory corruption

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483139

[ 2 ] Bug #483142 - CVE-2009-0354 Firefox XSS using a chrome XBL method and window.eval

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483142

[ 3 ] Bug #483143 - CVE-2009-0355 Firefox local file stealing with SessionStore

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483143

[ 4 ] Bug #483150 - CVE-2009-0358 Firefox directives to not cache pages ignored

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483150

[ 5 ] Bug #483141 - CVE-2009-0353 Firefox javascript crashes with evidence of memory corruption

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483141

[ 6 ] Bug #483144 - CVE-2009-0356 Firefox Chrome privilege escalation via local .desktop files

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483144

[ 7 ] Bug #483145 - CVE-2009-0357 Firefox XMLHttpRequest allows reading HTTPOnly cookies

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483145

su -c 'yum update gnome-python2-extras' at the command line.

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

available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

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Product: Fedora 10
Version: 2.19.1
Release: 26.fc10
Summary: The sources for additional. PyGNOME Python extension modules.

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