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Fedora 11 Galeon Update: 2009-9505 Critical Security Fixes

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Calendar Grey September 11, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Galeon web browser upgrade to Firefox version 3.5.3 addresses various security vulnerabilities. Discover additional details regarding the newest enhancements.
Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.5.3, 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 3.5.3, 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

* Wed Sep 9 2009 Jan Horak - 2.0.7-14 - Rebuild against newer gecko * 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


[ 1 ] Bug #521684 - CVE-2009-3069 Firefox 3.5 browser engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521684 [ 2 ] Bug #521686 - CVE-2009-3070 Firefox 3.5 3.0.14 browser engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521686 [ 3 ] Bug #521687 - CVE-2009-3071 Firefox 3.5.2 3.0.14 browser engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521687 [ 4 ] Bug #521688 - CVE-2009-3072 Firefox 3.5.3 3.0.14 browser engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521688 [ 5 ] Bug #521689 - CVE-2009-3073 Firefox 3.5 JavaScript engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521689 [ 6 ] Bug #521690 - CVE-2009-3074 Firefox 3.5 3.0.14 JavaScript engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521690 [ 7 ] Bug #521691 - CVE-2009-3075 Firefox 3.5.2 3.0.14 JavaScript engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521691 [ 8 ] Bug #521693 - CVE-2009-3077 F...

Read the Full Advisory

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: 14.fc11
URL:
Summary: GNOME2 Web browser based on Mozilla

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