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Fedora 11 Moderate: Yelp 2.26.0-7 Firefox 3.5.3 Security Fix

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Calendar Grey September 11, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest upgrade to Firefox 3.5.3 significantly improves the functionality of Fedora 11's yelp browser by addressing critical security 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

Yelp is the help browser for the GNOME desktop. It is designed

to help you browse all the documentation on your system in

one central tool, including traditional man pages, info pages and

documentation written in DocBook.

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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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue Fedora firefox gecko-libs help browser

Change Log

* Wed Sep 9 2009 Jan Horak - 2.26.0-7 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Aug 3 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.26.0-6 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Jul 17 2009 Jan Horak - 2.26.0-5 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Jun 30 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.26.0-4 - 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...

Read the Full Advisory

Update Instructions

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

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Name: yelp
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 2.26.0
Release: 7.fc11
URL:
Summary: Help browser for the GNOME desktop

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue Fedora firefox gecko-libs help browser

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