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Fedora 11: 1.8.5-12 Moderate: Blam Firefox Fixes Multiple Issues

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Summary

Blam is a tool that helps you keep track of the growing

number of news feeds distributed as RSS. Blam lets you

subscribe to any number of feeds and provides an easy to

use and clean interface to stay up to date

Update Information:

Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.5.1, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.5/ Update also includes all packages depending on gecko-libs rebuilt against new version of Firefox / XULRunner.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate software update Fedora patch Firefox Blam

Change Log

* Fri Jul 17 2009 Jan Horak - 1.8.5-12 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Jun 30 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.8.5-11 - Rebuild against newer gecko

References


[ 1 ] Bug #511228 - CVE-2009-2477 CVE-2009-2478 CVE-2009-2479 firefox 3.5 various flaws https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511228

Update Instructions

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

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Name: blam
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 1.8.5
Release: 12.fc11
URL: Summary : An RSS/RDF feed reader

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Topics Covered

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