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Fedora 11 Firefox 3.5.4 Critical Update: Multiple Issues Resolved

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Calendar Grey October 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade to Firefox 3.5.4 on Fedora 11 resolves several vulnerability concerns and boosts overall browser efficiency.
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

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards

compliance, performance and portability.

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

* Mon Oct 26 2009 Jan Horak - 3.5.4-1 - Updated to 3.5.4 * Mon Sep 7 2009 Jan Horak - 3.5.3-1 - Updated to 3.5.3. * Thu Aug 6 2009 Martin Stransky - 3.5.2-3 - Fix for #437596 - Firefox needs to register proper name for session restore. * Mon Aug 3 2009 Martin Stransky - 3.5.2-2 - Updated to 3.5.2. * Fri Jul 24 2009 Jan Horak - 3.5.1-3 - Adjust icons cache update according to template * Wed Jul 22 2009 Jan Horak - 3.5.1-2 - New icons fixed * Fri Jul 17 2009 Martin Stransky - 3.5.1-1 - Updated to 3.5.1. * Tue Jul 7 2009 Jan Horak - 3.5-2 - Updated icon * Tue Jun 30 2009 Christopher Aillon - 3.5-1 - Firefox 3.5 final release * Tue May 26 2009 Martin Stransky - 3.5-0.21 - fix for #502541 - Firefox version should depend on Xulrunner but does not

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

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Name: firefox
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 3.5.4
Release: 1.fc11
URL: Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser

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