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Fedora 9 blam-1.8.5-6.fc9.1 Moderate: Firefox Security Issues

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Calendar Grey March 8, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical vulnerabilities in Firefox and XULRunner patched in this Fedora 9 release. Restart needed post-installation.
Update to the new upstream Firefox 3.0.7 / XULRunner 1.9.0.7 fixing multiple security issues: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/ This up...

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 3.0.7 / XULRunner 1.9.0.7 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.

* Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 1.8.5-6.1

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* 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: 1.9.0.1

- 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 #488272 - CVE-2009-0771 Firefox 3 Layout Engine Crashes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488272

[ 2 ] Bug #488273 - CVE-2009-0772 Firefox 2 and 3 - Layout engine crashes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488273

[ 3 ] Bug #488276 - CVE-2009-0773 Firefox 3 crashes in the JavaScript engine

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488276

[ 4 ] Bug #488283 - CVE-2009-0774 Firefox 2 and 3 crashes in the JavaScript engine

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488283

[ 5 ] Bug #488287 - CVE-2009-0775 Firefox XUL Linked Clones Double Free Vulnerability

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488287

[ 6 ] Bug #488290 - CVE-2009-0776 Firefox XML data theft via RDFXMLDataSource and cross-domain redirect

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488290

[ 7 ] Bug #488292 - CVE-2009-0777 Firefox URL spoofing with invisible control characters

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488292

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

Product: Fedora 9
Version: 1.8.5
Release: 6.fc9.1
URL: Summary : An RSS/RDF feed reader

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