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Fedora 9 Critical: 2009-3875 Update For Epiphany Web Browser

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The latest release of Fedora 9 brings enhancements to the Epiphany web browser, resolving existing bugs related to the Mozilla rendering engine, alongside various stability improvements.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/

Summary

Epiphany is a simple GNOME web browser based on the Mozilla rendering

engine.

Update Information:

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

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Change Log

* Tue Apr 21 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.22.2-10 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Mar 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.22.2-9 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 2.22.2-8 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.22.2-7 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.22.2-6 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.22.2-5 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Sep 23 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.22.2-4 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Jul 16 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.22.2-3 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Jun 18 2008 Martin Stransky - 2.22.2-2 - Rebuild against xulrunner * Wed May 28 2008 Matthias Clasen - 2.22.2-1 - Update to 2.22.2

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 epiphany' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: epiphany
Product: Fedora 9
Version: 2.22.2
Release: 10.fc9
URL: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps
Summary: GNOME web browser based on the Mozilla rendering engine

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