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Fedora 10: 2009-3100 Critical: ruby-gnome2 Memory Issues in Firefox

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A recent update for ruby-gnome2 in Fedora 10 resolves significant memory vulnerabilities identified in Firefox that pose risks to users.
A memory corruption flaw was discovered in the way Firefox handles XML files containing an XSLT transform

Summary

This is a set of bindings for the GNOME-2.x libraries for use from Ruby.

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 - 0.18.1-5

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 0.18.1-4

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.18.1-3

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 0.18.1-2

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Thu Nov 13 2008 Allisson Azevedo 0.18.1-1

- Update to 0.18.1

su -c 'yum update ruby-gnome2' 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: 0.18.1
Release: 5.fc10
URL: Summary : Ruby binding of libgnome/libgnomeui-2.x

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