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Fedora 11 pcmanx-gtk2 Moderate Update: Firefox 3.5.4 Security Fix

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Calendar Grey October 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest update for Fedora's pcmanx-gtk2 integrates Firefox 3.5.4 which addresses security vulnerabilities and enhances user experience.
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

An easy-to-use telnet client mainly targets BBS users.

PCMan X is a newly developed GPL'd version of PCMan, a full-featured

famous BBS client formerly designed for MS Windows only. It aimed to

be an easy-to-use yet full-featured telnet client facilitating BBS

browsing with the ability to process double-byte characters.

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

security advisory moderate update buffer overflow Fedora firefox pcmanx

Change Log

* Tue Oct 27 2009 Jan Horak - 0.3.8-9 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Sep 9 2009 Jan Horak - 0.3.8-8 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Aug 4 2009 Jan Horak - 0.3.8-7 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Thu Jul 23 2009 Jan Horak - 0.3.8-6 - Rebuild against newer gecko

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...

Read the Full Advisory

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update pcmanx-gtk2' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: pcmanx-gtk2
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 0.3.8
Release: 9.fc11
URL: Summary : Telnet client designed for BBS browsing

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update buffer overflow Fedora firefox pcmanx

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