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Fedora: 2009-10878 Critical: XULRunner Memory Issues Affected

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Calendar Grey October 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora release addresses several vulnerabilities in Firefox 3.5.4, improving overall user safety against numerous risks.
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

XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Gecko applications.

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 update critical Fedora memory corruption Firefox XULRunner

Change Log

* Mon Oct 26 2009 Jan Horak - 1.9.1.4-1 - Update to 1.9.1.4 * Mon Sep 7 2009 Jan Horak - 1.9.1.3-1 - Update to 1.9.1.3 * Mon Aug 3 2009 Martin Stransky 1.9.1.2-1 - Update to 1.9.1.2 * Fri Jul 17 2009 Martin Stransky 1.9.1.1-1 - Update to 1.9.1.1 * Thu Jul 16 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.9.1-5 - Fix for milw0rm 9137 * Tue Jul 14 2009 Jan Horak - 1.9.1-4 - Fixed multilib issues * Tue Jul 7 2009 Jan Horak - 1.9.1-3 - Fixed wrong version of Firefox when loading 'about:' as location * Tue Jun 30 2009 Yanko Kaneti - 1.9.1-2 - Build using system hunspell * Tue Jun 30 2009 Christopher Aillon 1.9.1-1 - Update to 1.9.1 final release

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

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Name: xulrunner
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 1.9.1.4
Release: 1.fc11
URL: Summary : XUL Runtime for Gecko Applications

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora memory corruption Firefox XULRunner

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