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Fedora 10: 2009-3100 Moderate: Firefox Memory Crash Risk

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Addressing critical memory safety flaws in Firefox opens the door for remote adversaries to compromise systems, potentially crashing the browser or executing arbitrary code.
A memory corruption flaw was discovered in the way Firefox handles XML files containing an XSLT transform

Summary

Mugshot works with the server at mugshot.org to extend

the panel, web browser, music player and other parts of the desktop with

a "live social experience" and interoperation with online services you and

your friends use. It's fun and easy.

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 - 1.2.2-7

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 1.2.2-6

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.2.2-5

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 1.2.2-4

- Rebuild against newer gecko

su -c 'yum update mugshot' 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: 1.2.2
Release: 7.fc10
URL: Summary : Companion software for mugshot.org

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