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Fedora 9: 2009-1399 Critical: Firefox Update for Security Issues

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Calendar Grey February 6, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important revision for blam in Fedora 9, tackling several vulnerabilities in Firefox 3.0.6 and XULRunner 1.9.0.6.
Update to the new upstream Firefox 3.0.6 / XULRunner 1.9.0.6 fixing multiple security issues.

Summary

Blam is a tool that helps you keep track of the growing

number of news feeds distributed as RSS. Blam lets you

subscribe to any number of feeds and provides an easy to

use and clean interface to stay up to date

Update to the new upstream Firefox 3.0.6 / XULRunner 1.9.0.6 fixing multiple

security issues: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/ This update also contains new

builds of all applications depending on Gecko libraries, built against the new

version. Note: after the updated packages are installed, Firefox must be

restarted for the update to take effect.

* Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.8.5-5.1

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 1.8.5-4.1

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Tue Nov 18 2008 Mamoru Tasaka

- Rebuild against newer gtk-sharp2 (bug 468055)

* Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon - 1.8.5-3

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Sep 24 2008 Christopher Aillon - 1.8.5-2

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Mon Jul 21 2008 Alex Lancaster - 1.8.5-1

- Update to upstream (1.8.5), fixes FTBS (#434382)

- Set gecko version to new xulrunner: 1.9.0.6

- BR: gecko-devel-unstable

- Drop a number of patches which no longer apply

- Add new icons to file list.

* Tue Feb 19 2008 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.8.3-14

- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3

[ 1 ] Bug #483141 - CVE-2009-0353 Firefox javascript crashes with evidence of memory corruption

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483141

[ 2 ] Bug #483143 - CVE-2009-0355 Firefox local file stealing with SessionStore

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483143

[ 3 ] Bug #483145 - CVE-2009-0357 Firefox XMLHttpRequest allows reading HTTPOnly cookies

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483145

[ 4 ] Bug #483139 - CVE-2009-0352 Firefox layout crashes with evidence of memory corruption

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483139

[ 5 ] Bug #483142 - CVE-2009-0354 Firefox XSS using a chrome XBL method and window.eval

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483142

[ 6 ] Bug #483144 - CVE-2009-0356 Firefox Chrome privilege escalation via local .desktop files

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483144

[ 7 ] Bug #483150 - CVE-2009-0358 Firefox directives to not cache pages ignored

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483150

su -c 'yum update blam' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 9
Version: 1.8.5
Release: 5.fc9.1
URL: Summary : An RSS/RDF feed reader

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