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Fedora 10 Update: FEDORA-2009-7961 Critical Firefox Gadgets Fix

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Calendar Grey July 23, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Modifications to Google Gadgets for Linux on Fedora 10, resolving significant concerns regarding Firefox 3.0.12 and its associated dependencies.
Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.0.12, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities...

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.

Update Information:

Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.0.12, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/ Update also includes all packages depending on gecko-libs rebuilt against new version of Firefox / XULRunner.

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Change Log

* Tue Jul 21 2009 Jan Horak - 0.10.5-8 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Thu Jun 11 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.10.5-7 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Apr 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.10.5-6 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Apr 21 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.10.5-5 - Rebuild against newer gecko * 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

References


[ 1 ] Bug #512131 - CVE-2009-2463 Mozilla Base64 decoding crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512131 [ 2 ] Bug #512133 - CVE-2009-2464 Mozilla crash with multiple RDFs in XUL tree https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512133 [ 3 ] Bug #512135 - CVE-2009-2465 Mozilla double frame construction crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512135 [ 4 ] Bug #512128 - CVE-2009-2462 Mozilla Browser engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512128 [ 5 ] Bug #512136 - CVE-2009-2466 Mozilla JavaScript engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512136 [ 6 ] Bug #512137 - CVE-2009-2467 Mozilla remote code execution during Flash player unloading https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512137 [ 7 ] Bug #512142 - CVE-2009-2469 Mozilla remote code execution using watch and __defineSetter__ on SVG element https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512142 [ 8 ] Bug ...

Read the Full Advisory

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update google-gadgets' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: google-gadgets
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 0.10.5
Release: 8.fc10
URL: https://code.google.com/archive/p/google-gadgets-for-linux
Summary: Google Gadgets for Linux

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