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Fedora 10 FEDORA-2009-8288 Moderate: Xulrunner Security Patch

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Calendar Grey August 4, 2009
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Fedora 10 update released, resolving various security vulnerabilities in Firefox and xulrunner components.
Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.0.13, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities...

Summary

XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Gecko applications.

Update Information:

Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.0.13, 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. Note: Issues described in MFSA 2009-42 and MFSA 2009-43 were previously addressed via rebase of the NSS packages.

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security advisory moderate Fedora security patch Firefox xulrunner

Change Log

* Mon Aug 3 2009 Martin Stransky 1.9.0.13-1 - Update to 1.9.0.13 * Tue Jul 21 2009 Jan Horak - 1.9.0.12-1 - Update to 1.9.0.12 * Thu Jun 11 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.9.0.11-1 - Update to 1.9.0.11 * Mon Apr 27 2009 Jan Horak - 1.9.0.10-1 - Update to 1.9.0.10 * Tue Apr 21 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.9.0.9-1 - Update to 1.9.0.9 * Fri Mar 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.9.0.8-1 - Update to 1.9.0.8 * Tue Mar 3 2009 Jan Horak - 1.9.0.7-1 - Update to 1.9.0.7 * Thu Feb 26 2009 Jan Horak - 1.9.0.6-2 - Fixed wrong version of Firefox when loading 'about:' as location (#453980). * Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon 1.9.0.6-1 - Update to 1.9.0.6 * Thu Jan 8 2009 Martin Stransky 1.9.0.5-2 - Copied mozilla-config.h to stable include dir (#478445) * Tue Dec 16 2008 Christopher Aillon 1.9.0.5-1 - Update to 1.9.0.5

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-8288 2009-08-05 00:00:31
Name : xulrunner Product : Fedora 10 Version : 1.9.0.13 Release : 1.fc10 URL : Summary : XUL Runtime for Gecko Applications Description : XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Gecko applications.

Update Instructions

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

Name: xulrunner
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 1.9.0.13
Release: 1.fc10
URL: Summary : XUL Runtime for Gecko Applications

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