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Fedora 10 2009-3100 Critical: Memory Flaws in XULRunner

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Memory vulnerabilities may result in instability and unauthorized code execution in Firefox. It is essential to upgrade xulrunner on Fedora 10 without delay.
A memory corruption flaw was discovered in the way Firefox handles XML files containing an XSLT transform

Summary

XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Gecko applications.

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 - 1.9.0.8-1

- 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

su -c 'yum update xulrunner' 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

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Product: Fedora 10
Version: 1.9.0.8
Release: 1.fc10
URL: Summary : XUL Runtime for Gecko Applications

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