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Fedora 10 gnome-python2-extras Moderate: Firefox Memory Flaws

fedora
Calendar Grey March 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest gnome-python2-extras updates feature crucial security improvements to fix memory vulnerabilities in Firefox, ensuring system integrity and performance
A memory corruption flaw was discovered in the way Firefox handles XML files containing an XSLT transform

Summary

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

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

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 - 2.19.1-28

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 2.19.1-27

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* 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

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

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 10
Version: 2.19.1
Release: 28.fc10
Summary: The sources for additional. PyGNOME Python extension modules.

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