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Fedora 12: 2010-8909 High: Eclipse Patch For Web Browser Problems

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The latest release of Eclipse IDE is now available in Fedora 11, addressing several vulnerabilities found in Firefox 3.5.1.
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/...

Summary

The Eclipse platform is designed for building integrated development

environments (IDEs), server-side applications, desktop applications, and

everything in between.

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Fedora Firefox Eclipse

Change Log

* Fri Jul 17 2009 Jan Horak - 1:3.4.2-13 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Jun 30 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1:3.4.2-12 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Thu Jun 18 2009 Alexander Kurtakov 1:3.4.2-11 - Fix package-build template to add target for -Dconfigs. * Tue Apr 21 2009 Andrew Overholt 1:3.4.2-10 - Update "package build" patch to not nest symlinks (Elliott Baron). - RHBZ#496963.

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 eclipse' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: eclipse
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 3.4.2
Release: 13.fc11
URL: https://www.eclipse.org/
Summary: An open, extensible IDE

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Fedora Firefox Eclipse

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