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Moderate DoS Advisory for Fedora 9 Blam 1.8.5-8.fc9.1 Released

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Calendar Grey April 23, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The blam update in Fedora 9 significantly improves system reliability and fortifies defenses against identified vulnerabilities concerning Firefox.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/

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 Information:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora moderate severity DoS risk blam

Change Log

* Tue Apr 21 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.8.5-8.1 - Rebuild against newer gecko * 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

References


[ 1 ] Bug #496252 - CVE-2009-1302 Firefox 3 Layout engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496252 [ 2 ] Bug #496253 - CVE-2009-1303 Firefox 2 and 3 Layout engine crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496253 [ 3 ] Bug #496255 - CVE-2009-1304 Firefox 3 JavaScript engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496255 [ 4 ] Bug #496256 - CVE-2009-1305 Firefox 2 and 3 JavaScript engine crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496256 [ 5 ] Bug #486704 - CVE-2009-0652 firefox: does not properly prevent the literal rendering of homoglyph characters in IDN domain names (spoof URLs and conduct phishing attacks) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486704 [ 6 ] Bug #496262 - CVE-2009-1306 Firefox jar: scheme ignores the content-disposition: header on the inner URI https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496262 [ 7 ] Bug #496263 - CVE-2009-1307 Firefox Same-origin violati...

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Update Instructions

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

Name: blam
Product: Fedora 9
Version: 1.8.5
Release: 8.fc9.1
URL: Summary : An RSS/RDF feed reader

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora moderate severity DoS risk blam

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