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Fedora 11: Blam 1.8.5-14 Critical: Firefox Crash Resolutions

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Calendar Grey September 11, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade blam to version 1.8.5-14.fc11 to address significant security vulnerabilities found in Firefox 3.5.3. Get it installed using yum right away!
Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.5.3, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/...

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 3.5.3, 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora Firefox crash XULRunner Blam

Change Log

* Wed Sep 9 2009 Jan Horak - 1.8.5-14 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Aug 3 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.8.5-13 - Rebuild against newer gecko * 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 #521684 - CVE-2009-3069 Firefox 3.5 browser engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521684 [ 2 ] Bug #521686 - CVE-2009-3070 Firefox 3.5 3.0.14 browser engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521686 [ 3 ] Bug #521687 - CVE-2009-3071 Firefox 3.5.2 3.0.14 browser engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521687 [ 4 ] Bug #521688 - CVE-2009-3072 Firefox 3.5.3 3.0.14 browser engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521688 [ 5 ] Bug #521689 - CVE-2009-3073 Firefox 3.5 JavaScript engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521689 [ 6 ] Bug #521690 - CVE-2009-3074 Firefox 3.5 3.0.14 JavaScript engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521690 [ 7 ] Bug #521691 - CVE-2009-3075 Firefox 3.5.2 3.0.14 JavaScript engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521691 [ 8 ] Bug #521693 - CVE-2009-3077 F...

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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: 14.fc11
URL: Summary : An RSS/RDF feed reader

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora Firefox crash XULRunner Blam

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