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Fedora 11 Update: Critical Google Gadgets Fix for Firefox 3.5.3 Crashes

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Upgrade Google Gadgets for Fedora 11 to address severe bugs and enhance efficiency with Firefox version 3.5.3.
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

Google Gadgets for Linux provides a platform for running desktop

gadgets under Linux, catering to the unique needs of Linux users. It

can run, without modification, many Google Desktop gadgets as well as

the Universal Gadgets on iGoogle.

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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security advisory critical issue software update Fedora firefox performance improvement google-gadgets

Change Log

* Wed Sep 9 2009 Jan Horak - 0.11.0-5 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Thu Aug 6 2009 Michel Salim - 0.11.0-4 - Backport Gecko version detection fix * Mon Aug 3 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.11.0-3 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Jul 17 2009 Jan Horak - 0.11.0-2 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Jul 1 2009 Michel Salim - 0.11.0-1 - Update to 0.11.0 * Sat May 2 2009 Michel Salim - 0.10.6-0.1.20090430svn1449.fc11 - Update to SVN checkout, for xulrunner 1.9.1 compatibility

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...

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Update Instructions

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

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Name: google-gadgets
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 0.11.0
Release: 5.fc11
URL: https://code.google.com/archive/p/google-gadgets-for-linux
Summary: Google Gadgets for Linux

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security advisory critical issue software update Fedora firefox performance improvement google-gadgets

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