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Fedora 10: 2009-3500 Urgent Gedit Memory Issue and Risk

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Latest Kazehakase patch for Fedora 10 addresses memory leaks in Firefox. Protect your device against potential code execution exploits.
A memory corruption flaw was discovered in the way Firefox handles XML files containing an XSLT transform

Summary

Kazehakase is a Web browser which aims to provide

a user interface that is truly user-friendly & fully customizable.

This package uses Gecko for HTML rendering engine.

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 - 0.5.6-1.5

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 0.5.6-1.4

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.5.6-1.3

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 0.5.6-1.2

- Rebuild against newer gecko

su -c 'yum update kazehakase' 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

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 10
Version: 0.5.6
Release: 1.fc10.5
URL: Summary : Kazehakase browser using Gecko rendering engine

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