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Fedora: 2009-10878 Critical Issue in Firefox 3.5.4 Memory Leak

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Calendar Grey October 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This patch addresses several concerns in Firefox 3.5.4 for Fedora 11, improving the overall security for users.
Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.5.4, 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 3.5.4, 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 software update Fedora critical severity memory issue Firefox blam

Change Log

* Tue Oct 27 2009 Jan Horak - 1.8.5-15 - Rebuild against newer gecko * 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 #530567 - CVE-2009-3380 Firefox crashes with evidence of memory corruption https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530567 [ 2 ] Bug #530168 - CVE-2009-3376 Firefox download filename spoofing with RTL override https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530168 [ 3 ] Bug #530167 - CVE-2009-3375 Firefox cross-origin data theft through document.getSelection() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530167 [ 4 ] Bug #530162 - CVE-2009-1563 Firefox heap buffer overflow in string to number conversion https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530162 [ 5 ] Bug #530157 - CVE-2009-3374 Firefox chrome privilege escalation in XPCVariant::VariantDataToJS() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530157 [ 6 ] Bug #530156 - CVE-2009-3373 Firefox heap buffer overflow in GIF color map parser https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530156 [ 7 ] Bug #530155 - CVE-2009-3372 Firefox crash in proxy auto-configuration...

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

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