Fedora 10: 2009-3100 Critical: Firefox Memory Flaw Exploit

This is mozvoikko, an extension for Mozilla programs for using the Finnish

spell-checker Voikko.

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 - 0.9.5-8

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 0.9.5-7

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.9.5-6

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 0.9.5-5

- Rebuild against newer gecko

su -c 'yum update mozvoikko' at the command line.

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