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Fedora 9: 2009-3099 Critical Update For Firefox Memory Flaw Exploit

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Calendar Grey March 27, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important notice for Fedora 9 fixes a vulnerability in Firefox that could lead to unauthorized remote code execution. Discover the steps to update your system.
Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser

Summary

An API document browser for GNOME 2.

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 - 0.19.1-10

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 0.19.1-9

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.19.1-8

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 0.19.1-7

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon - 0.19.1-6

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Thu Oct 23 2008 Martin Stransky - 0.19.1-5

- fixed #399441 - devhelp compiled against xulrunner

doesn't seem to pick up css

* Wed Sep 24 2008 Christopher Aillon - 0.19.1-4

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Jul 16 2008 Christopher Aillon - 0.19.1-3

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Jun 18 2008 Owen Taylor - 0.19.1-2

- Rebuild against xulrunner-1.9

* Mon May 26 2008 Matthew Barnes - 0.19.1-1

- Update to 0.19.1

* Sun May 4 2008 Matthias Clasen - 0.19-5

- Fix source url

su -c 'yum update devhelp' 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: 0.19.1
Release: 10.fc9
URL:
Summary: API document browser

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