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Fedora 10 Security Alert: FEDORA-2009-3100 Critical Memory Issue in Firefox

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important patch for Fedora 10 targeting vulnerabilities in Firefox's memory management; safeguard your system now.
A memory corruption flaw was discovered in the way Firefox handles XML files containing an XSLT transform

Summary

gnome-web-photo contains a thumbnailer that will be used by GNOME applications,

including the file manager, to generate screenshots of web pages.

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 - 0.3-16

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 0.3-15

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.3-14

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 0.3-13

- Rebuild against newer gecko

su -c 'yum update gnome-web-photo' 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/

Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 10
Version: 0.3
Release: 16.fc10
Summary: HTML pages thumbnailer

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