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Fedora 10 Miro Update Critical: Firefox Memory Flaw Fixes

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest revision of Miro for Fedora 10 addresses significant vulnerabilities in Firefox, enhancing defenses against potential remote exploits.
A memory corruption flaw was discovered in the way Firefox handles XML files containing an XSLT transform

Summary

Miro is a free application that turns your computer into an

internet TV video player. This release is still a beta version, which means

that there are some bugs, but we're moving quickly to fix them and will be

releasing bug fixes on a regular basis.

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 - 2.0.3-2

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Mon Mar 16 2009 Alex Lancaster - 2.0.3-1

- Update to upstream 2.0.3

- Add patch to disable xine-hack, hopefully fixes #480527

- Use internal 0.14 version of rb_libtorrent for < F-11 (#489755)

* Mon Mar 9 2009 Alex Lancaster - 2.0.2-1

- Update to upstream 2.0.2

- Add Requires: gstreamer-python (#489134)

- Drop patch for libtorrent 0.13, applied upstream

* Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 2.0-4

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Fri Feb 27 2009 Alex Lancaster - 2.0-3

- Combine the fhs patches into one, and fix the path to

/usr/libexec/xine_extractor (#487442)

* Fri Feb 27 2009 Alex Lancaster - 2.0-2

- Add another upstream patch to fix patch on x86_64 (#487442)

* Tue Feb 24 2009 Alex Lancaster - 2.0-1

- Update to upstream 2.0.

- Add patches to use system libtorrent and fix download directory to

~/Videos/Miro

* Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.2.8-2

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Dec 3 2008 Alex Lancaster - 1.2.8-1

- Enable patch for new boost 1.37 for F-11+

- Update to latest upstream (1.2.8)

su -c 'yum update Miro' 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

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Product: Fedora 10
Version: 2.0.3
Release: 2.fc10
Summary: Miro - Internet TV Player

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