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Fedora 11 Moderate: Ruby-Gnome2 Addresses Security Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey October 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade to ruby-gnome2 in Fedora 11 mitigates several vulnerabilities through a Firefox fix.
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

Ruby/GNOME2 is a Ruby binding of libgnome/libgnomeui-2.x.

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 security issue fedora firefox multiple fixes ruby-gnome2

Change Log

* Tue Oct 27 2009 Jan Horak - 0.19.3-3 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Sun Sep 27 2009 Mamoru Tasaka - 0.19.3-2 - Fix crash when moving cursor on fantasdic 1.0 beta 7 (ruby-gnome2-Bugs-2865895) * Fri Sep 25 2009 Mamoru Tasaka - 0.19.3-1 - Update to 0.19.3 - Released source does not support gio yet * Wed Sep 9 2009 Jan Horak - 0.19.1-2 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Aug 3 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.19.1-1.1 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Aug 3 2009 Mamoru Tasaka - 0.19.1-1 - Update to 0.19.1, drop all upstreamed patches - Introduce many -devel subpackages containing pkgconfig file * Fri Jul 17 2009 Jan Horak - 0.19.0-3.1 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Thu Jul 9 2009 Mamoru Tasaka - 0.19.0-3 - Make ruby-gtkglext require ruby(opengl) * Wed Jul 1 2009 Mamoru Tasaka - 0.19.0-2 - Install more needed header files in ruby-gtk2-devel (bug 509035) - Keep timestamps on installed header files * Tue Jun 30 2009 Christopher Aillon - Rebuild against newer gecko * Thu Jun 18 2009 Mamoru Tasaka - 0.19.0-1 - Update to 0.19.0

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 ruby-gnome2' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: ruby-gnome2
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 0.19.3
Release: 3.fc11
URL: Summary : Ruby binding of libgnome/libgnomeui-2.x

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security advisory moderate security issue fedora firefox multiple fixes ruby-gnome2

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