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Fedora 11 Firefox 3.5.3 Critical Fix: Hulahop Update 2009-9505

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Hulahop revision for Fedora 12 improves support for Chrome 4.0.2 and resolves significant vulnerabilities.
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

The hulalop library contains a widget for embedding mozilla.

It's based on pyxpcom and give access to the whole mozilla

xpcom API through python.

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 - 0.4.9-8 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Aug 3 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.4.9-7 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Jul 17 2009 Jan Horak - 0.4.9-6 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Jun 30 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.4.9-5 - 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...

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Update Instructions

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

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Name: hulahop
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 0.4.9
Release: 8.fc11
URL: http://dev.laptop.org
Summary: A pygtk widget for embedding mozilla

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