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Fedora: gnome-python2-extras 2.19.1 Update: Moderate Firefox Security Issue

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Announcement regarding the gnome-python2-extras package in Fedora, focusing on the security vulnerability in Firefox 3.0.10 and improvements to the plugin functionalities.
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

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

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

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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Change Log

* Mon Apr 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.19.1-30 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Apr 21 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.19.1-29 - Rebuild against newer gecko * 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

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 gnome-python2-extras' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: gnome-python2-extras
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 2.19.1
Release: 30.fc10
URL: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/pygobject/
Summary: The sources for additional. PyGNOME Python extension modules.

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