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Fedora 11: FEDORA-2009-9505 Critical: Firefox Crash and Threat Fix

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Calendar Grey September 11, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Enhance Firefox 3.5.3 security on Fedora with gnome-web-photo by updating to the latest version, tightening permissions, auditing plugins, and utilizing firewalls and SELinux
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

gnome-web-photo contains a thumbnailer that will be used by GNOME applications,

including the file manager, to generate screenshots of web pages.

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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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora JavaScript threat Firefox update gnome-web-photo browser crash

Change Log

* Wed Sep 9 2009 Jan Horak - 0.7-6 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Aug 3 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.7-5 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Jul 17 2009 Jan Horak - 0.7-4 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Jun 30 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.7-3 - 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 gnome-web-photo' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: gnome-web-photo
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 0.7
Release: 6.fc11
URL: https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-web-photo/0.7/
Summary: HTML pages thumbnailer

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora JavaScript threat Firefox update gnome-web-photo browser crash

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