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Fedora 10 pcmanx-gtk2 Critical Remote Code Exec Vuln 2023-7961

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Calendar Grey July 23, 2009
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Important patch for Fedora 10 addresses critical Firefox issues causing remote execution risks that need immediate attention.
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

An easy-to-use telnet client mainly targets BBS users.

PCMan X is a newly developed GPL'd version of PCMan, a full-featured

famous BBS client formerly designed for MS Windows only. It aimed to

be an easy-to-use yet full-featured telnet client facilitating BBS

browsing with the ability to process double-byte characters.

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 - 0.3.8-11 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Thu Jun 11 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.3.8-10 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Apr 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.3.8-9 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Apr 21 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.3.8-8 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Mar 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.3.8-7 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 0.3.8-6 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.3.8-5 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 0.3.8-4 - Rebuild against newer gecko

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 ...

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Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update pcmanx-gtk2' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: pcmanx-gtk2
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 0.3.8
Release: 11.fc10
URL: Summary : Telnet client designed for BBS browsing

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