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Fedora 11 Epiphany: 2009-10878 Critical Firefox Update for Security Issues

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Calendar Grey October 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade to Firefox 3.5.4 for Fedora 11, resolving several security vulnerabilities as outlined in the advisory notices.
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

Epiphany is the web browser for the GNOME desktop. Its goal is to be

simple and easy to use. Epiphany ties together many GNOME components

in order to let you focus on the Web content, instead of the browser

application.

Epiphany is extensible through a plugin system. Existing plugins can be

found in the epiphany-extensions package.

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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Change Log

* Tue Oct 27 2009 Jan Horak - 2.26.3-5 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Sep 9 2009 Jan Horak - 2.26.3-4 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Aug 3 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.26.3-3 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Jul 17 2009 Jan Horak - 2.26.3-2 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Jul 1 2009 Matthias Clasen - 2.26.3-1 - Update to 2.26.3 - See * Tue Jun 30 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.26.2-2 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Jun 1 2009 Matthias Clasen - 2.26.2-1 - Update to 2.26.2 - See

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...

Read the Full Advisory

Update Instructions

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

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Name: epiphany
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 2.26.3
Release: 5.fc11
URL: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps
Summary: Web browser for GNOME

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