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Fedora: 3100 Moderate: Google Gadgets And Firefox Memory Flaw

fedora
Calendar Grey March 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A flaw in Firefox's memory handling might enable distant attackers to cause the browser to become unresponsive or run unauthorized commands on Fedora platforms.
A memory corruption flaw was discovered in the way Firefox handles XML files containing an XSLT transform

Summary

Google Gadgets for Linux provides a platform for running desktop

gadgets under Linux, catering to the unique needs of Linux users. It

can run, without modification, many Google Desktop gadgets as well as

the Universal Gadgets on iGoogle.

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 - 0.10.5-4

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 0.10.5-3

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.10.5-2

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Jan 14 2009 Rex Dieter - 0.10.5-1

- 0.10.5, req'd by kde

* Tue Dec 30 2008 Michel Salim - 0.10.4-2

- BR: Network-Manager-devel, startup-notification-devel

- Pass the browser plugin directory to ./configure

- Move designer desktop entry to -gtk subpackage

* Sat Dec 20 2008 Rex Dieter - 0.10.4-1

- Update to 0.10.4 (#477251)

- -devel: Requires: %name-gtk %name-qt (devel symlinks)

- BR: pkgconfig (automatic pkgconfig deps)

* Sun Nov 23 2008 Michel Salim - 0.10.3-1

- Update to 0.10.3

su -c 'yum update google-gadgets' 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/

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 10
Version: 0.10.5
Release: 4.fc10
Summary: Google Gadgets for Linux

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