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Fedora 10: 2009-3100 Severe: Firefox Memory Flaws and Code Execution

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2009
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Significant Fedora patch resolves memory vulnerabilities in Firefox, potentially causing crashes or arbitrary code execution.
A memory corruption flaw was discovered in the way Firefox handles XML files containing an XSLT transform

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.

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 - 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

su -c 'yum update yelp' 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: 2.24.0
Release: 7.fc10
URL:
Summary: A system documentation reader from the Gnome project

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