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Fedora 9: 2009-4078 Critical: Devhelp Fixes Firefox Crash

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Calendar Grey April 27, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent enhancement to devhelp for Fedora 9 tackles a critical security vulnerability within Firefox that influences its reliability and overall performance.
Update to Firefox 3.0.10 fixing one security issue: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/ Depending packages rebuilt against new Firefox are...

Summary

An API document browser for GNOME 2.

Update Information:

Update to Firefox 3.0.10 fixing one security issue: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/ Depending packages rebuilt against new Firefox are also included in this update. Additional bugs fixed in other packages: - totem: Fix YouTube plugin following web site changes

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update Fedora Firefox devhelp API documentation

Change Log

* Mon Apr 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.19.1-12 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Apr 21 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.19.1-11 - Rebuild against newer gecko * 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

References


[ 1 ] Bug #497447 - CVE-2009-1313 Firefox crash in nsTextFrame::ClearTextRun() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497447

Update Instructions

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

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Name: devhelp
Product: Fedora 9
Version: 0.19.1
Release: 12.fc9
URL:
Summary: API document browser

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update Fedora Firefox devhelp API documentation

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