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Fedora 11: 2009-7498 Moderate: Firefox Plugin Security Issue

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An update addressing the Chrome extension vulnerability issue #500299 for Ubuntu 20.04 whispers, fortifying system protection.
- Security fix for Firefox plugin bug #479171

Summary

Mumbles is a plugin driven, DBus based notification system written for the

Gnome desktop. Similar to libnotify notifications and Growl for OSX, mumbles

aims to provide a modern notification system for the GNU/Linux Desktop.

Update Information:

- Security fix for Firefox plugin bug #479171

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Change Log

* Wed Jun 10 2009 Tim Waugh 0.4-11 - Rebuild the plugins at build time (bug #505070). * Mon Jun 8 2009 John Anderson - 0.4-10 - Fixed path to make mumbles run on x86_64 bug #479158 - Security fix for Firefox plugin bug #479171 - Added buildrequires to fix bug #481188

References


[ 1 ] Bug #505070 - Fails to load plugins https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505070 [ 2 ] Bug #479158 - Fails on x86_64 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479158 [ 3 ] Bug #479171 - Unsafe shell usage https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479171 [ 4 ] Bug #481188 - Possible missing dependancy in rpm - python-setuptools https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481188

Update Instructions

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

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Name: mumbles
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 0.4
Release: 11.fc11
URL: https://mumbles-project.org/
Summary: A plugin driven DBus based notification system for the Gnome desktop

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