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Fedora: Galeon Security Advisory for Mozilla Issues - Critical

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Calendar Grey October 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Galeon addresses important security vulnerabilities through the latest Firefox update for Fedora 11, accompanied by a gecko-libs re-compilation.
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

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 3.5.4, 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 - 2.0.7-17 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Sep 25 2009 Denis Leroy - 2.0.7-16 - Added patch from Yanko Kaneti (#525417) to fix crash on startup * Wed Sep 23 2009 Denis Leroy - 2.0.7-15 - Added jsconsole patch - Changed default home location, Mandriva patch - Disable plugins wrap patch, causing spurious crashes - Made gecko libs Rs and BRs exact (#515640) * 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 #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 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: 17.fc11
URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/galeon/
Summary: GNOME2 Web browser based on Mozilla

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