Fedora 9: FEDORA-2009-3099 Moderate: Firefox Memory Issues

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Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL

Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox. A memory corruption flaw was

discovered in the way Firefox handles XML files containing an XSLT transform. A

remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Firefox or, potentially, execute

arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2009-1169) A flaw was

discovered in the way Firefox handles certain XUL garbage collection events. A

remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Firefox or, potentially, execute

arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2009-1044) This update also

provides depending packages rebuilt against new Firefox version. Miro updates

to upstream 2.0.3. Provides new features and fixes various bugs in 1.2.x series

* Fri Mar 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.8.5-7.1

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* 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

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