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Fedora 11: FEDORA-2009-10878 Moderate: Update for Firefox Security Fixes

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Calendar Grey October 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Revise Yelp to address vulnerabilities detected in Firefox 3.5.4. This is crucial for maintaining user manuals on the GNOME interface.
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

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 3.5.4, 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora Firefox CVE issues help browser upstream security

Change Log

* Tue Oct 27 2009 Jan Horak - 2.26.0-8 - Rebuild against newer gecko * 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 #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 yelp' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: yelp
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 2.26.0
Release: 8.fc11
URL:
Summary: Help browser for the GNOME desktop

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora Firefox CVE issues help browser upstream security

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