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Fedora: 2009-10878 Critical: Google Gadgets Firefox Security Fix

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Calendar Grey October 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update your google-gadgets on Fedora to implement critical security patches that mitigate various vulnerabilities identified in Firefox.
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

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 3.5.4, 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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Topics Covered

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Change Log

* Tue Oct 27 2009 Jan Horak - 0.11.1-2 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Sat Sep 12 2009 Michel Salim - 0.11.1-1 - Update to 0.11.1 * 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 #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...

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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: 0.11.1
Release: 2.fc11
URL: https://code.google.com/archive/p/google-gadgets-for-linux
Summary: Google Gadgets for Linux

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Topics Covered

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