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Fedora 11 Evolution-RSS Update Moderate: Addressing Firefox Issues

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Calendar Grey July 22, 2009
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Fedora 11 has released a vital update for evolution-rss, fixing critical security vulnerabilities and enhancing functionality while improving RSS feed handling and user experience
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

This is an evolution plugin which enables evolution to read rss feeds.

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 update Fedora software issue Firefox evolution-rss

Change Log

* Fri Jul 17 2009 Jan Horak - 0.1.2-11 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Jun 30 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.1.2-10 - 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 evolution-rss' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: evolution-rss
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 0.1.2
Release: 11.fc11
URL: Summary : Evolution RSS Reader

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Fedora software issue Firefox evolution-rss

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