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Fedora 9: 2009-6411 Critical: Chmsee Update for Firefox Browser Flaws

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Release of Firefox 3.0.11 tackles several concerns and enhances gecko-libs for the chmsee package on Fedora. Numerous corrections have been applied.
Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.0.11, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities...

Summary

A gtk2 chm document viewer.

It uses chmlib to extract files. It uses gecko to display pages. It supports

displaying multilingual pages due to gecko. It features bookmarks and tabs.

The tabs could be used to jump inside the chm file conveniently. Its UI is

clean and handy, also is well localized. It is actively developed and

maintained. The author of chmsee is Jungle Ji and several other great people.

Hint

* Unlike other chm viewers, chmsee extracts files from chm file, and then read

and display them. The extracted files could be found in $HOME/.chmsee/bookshelf

directory. You can clean those files at any time and there is a special config

option for that.

* The bookmark is related to each file so not all bookmarks will be loaded,

only current file's.

* Try to remove $HOME/.chmsee if you encounter any problem after an upgrade.

Update Information:

Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.0.11, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/ Update also includes all packages depending on gecko-libs rebuild against new version of Firefox / XULRunner.

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Change Log

* Thu Jun 11 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.0.1-13 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Apr 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.0.1-12 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Apr 21 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.0.1-11 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Mar 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.0.1-10 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 1.0.1-9 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.0.1-8 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 1.0.1-7 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon - 1.0.1-6 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Sep 24 2008 Christopher Aillon - 1.0.1-5 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Jun 20 2008 Martin Stransky - 1.0.1-4 - Rebuild against new xulrunner * Sat May 17 2008 bbbush - 1.0.1-3 - update to 1.0.1 - specify gecko-provider to "libxul", add nspr in patch to configure - BR libgcrypt-devel instead of openssl-devel * Fri Apr 25 2008 bbbush - 1.0.0-2.37 - patch from Martin Stransky to fix crash on open files (rh#427622)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #503568 - CVE-2009-1392 Firefox browser engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503568 [ 2 ] Bug #503569 - CVE-2009-1832 Firefox double frame construction flaw https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503569 [ 3 ] Bug #503570 - CVE-2009-1833 Firefox JavaScript engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503570 [ 4 ] Bug #503573 - CVE-2009-1834 Firefox URL spoofing with invalid unicode characters https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503573 [ 5 ] Bug #503576 - CVE-2009-1835 Firefox Arbitrary domain cookie access by local file: resources https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503576 [ 6 ] Bug #503578 - CVE-2009-1836 Firefox SSL tampering via non-200 responses to proxy CONNECT requests https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503578 [ 7 ] Bug #503579 - CVE-2009-1837 Firefox Race condition while accessing the private data of a NPObject JS wrapper class object ...

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Update Instructions

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

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Name: chmsee
Product: Fedora 9
Version: 1.0.1
Release: 13.fc9
URL: Summary : A Gtk+2 CHM document viewer

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