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Fedora 11: FEDORA-2009-8279 Moderate: Galeon Firefox Security Fix

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Calendar Grey August 4, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Galeon update in Fedora 11 addresses recent vulnerabilities found in Firefox 3.5.2, boosting overall security and improving user experience.
Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.5.2, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/...

Summary

Galeon is a web browser built around Gecko (Mozilla's rendering

engine) and Necko (Mozilla's networking engine). It's a GNOME web

browser, designed to take advantage of as many GNOME technologies as

makes sense. Galeon was written to do just one thing - browse the web.

Update Information:

Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.5.2, 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 Aug 3 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.0.7-13 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Jul 17 2009 Jan Horak - 2.0.7-12 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Jun 30 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.0.7-11 - Rebuild against newer gecko

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-8279 2009-08-05 00:00:09
Name : galeon Product : Fedora 11 Version : 2.0.7 Release : 13.fc11 URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/galeon/ Summary : GNOME2 Web browser based on Mozilla Description : Galeon is a web browser built around Gecko (Mozilla's rendering engine) and Necko (Mozilla's networking engine). It's a GNOME web browser, designed to take advantage of as many GNOME technologies as makes sense. Galeon was written to do just one thing - browse the web.

Update Instructions

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

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Name: galeon
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 2.0.7
Release: 13.fc11
URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/galeon/
Summary: GNOME2 Web browser based on Mozilla

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