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Fedora 10: 2009-10981 Moderate: Firefox Fixes and Security Issues

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Calendar Grey November 4, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Stay safe with the latest Fedora 10 update enhancing Firefox 3.0.15 security, fixing vulnerabilities, and improving memory management for safer browsing experience
Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.0.15, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities...

Summary

Yelp is the Gnome 2 help/documentation browser. It is designed

to help you browse all the documentation on your system in

one central tool.

Update Information:

Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.0.15, 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora bug fixes Firefox system documentation

Change Log

* Tue Oct 27 2009 Jan Horak - 2.24.0-14 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Sep 9 2009 Jan Horak - 2.24.0-13 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Aug 4 2009 Jan Horak - 2.24.0-12 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Jul 21 2009 Jan Horak - 2.24.0-11 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Thu Jun 11 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.24.0-10 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Apr 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.24.0-9 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Apr 21 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.24.0-8 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Mar 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.24.0-7 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 2.24.0-6 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.24.0-5 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.24.0-4 - Rebuild against newer gecko

References


[ 1 ] Bug #530567 - CVE-2009-3380 Firefox crashes with evidence of memory corruption https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530567 [ 2 ] Bug #530569 - CVE-2009-3382 Firefox crashes with evidence of memory corruption https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530569 [ 3 ] Bug #530168 - CVE-2009-3376 Firefox download filename spoofing with RTL override https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530168 [ 4 ] Bug #530167 - CVE-2009-3375 Firefox cross-origin data theft through document.getSelection() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530167 [ 5 ] Bug #530162 - CVE-2009-1563 Firefox heap buffer overflow in string to number conversion https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530162 [ 6 ] Bug #530157 - CVE-2009-3374 Firefox chrome privilege escalation in XPCVariant::VariantDataToJS() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530157 [ 7 ] Bug #530156 - CVE-2009-3373 Firefox heap buffer overflow in GIF color m...

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Update Instructions

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

Name: yelp
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 2.24.0
Release: 14.fc10
URL:
Summary: A system documentation reader from the Gnome project

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora bug fixes Firefox system documentation

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