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Fedora 9: 2009-1399 Critical: Epiphany Firefox Security Fix

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Calendar Grey February 6, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora update for Epiphany fixes serious security vulnerabilities linked to Firefox and XULRunner, enhancing user protection while browsing
Update to the new upstream Firefox 3.0.6 / XULRunner 1.9.0.6 fixing multiple security issues.

Summary

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

engine.

Update to the new upstream Firefox 3.0.6 / XULRunner 1.9.0.6 fixing multiple

security issues: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/ This update also contains new

builds of all applications depending on Gecko libraries, built against the new

version. Note: after the updated packages are installed, Firefox must be

restarted for the update to take effect.

* 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

[ 1 ] Bug #483141 - CVE-2009-0353 Firefox javascript crashes with evidence of memory corruption

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483141

[ 2 ] Bug #483143 - CVE-2009-0355 Firefox local file stealing with SessionStore

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483143

[ 3 ] Bug #483145 - CVE-2009-0357 Firefox XMLHttpRequest allows reading HTTPOnly cookies

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483145

[ 4 ] Bug #483139 - CVE-2009-0352 Firefox layout crashes with evidence of memory corruption

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483139

[ 5 ] Bug #483142 - CVE-2009-0354 Firefox XSS using a chrome XBL method and window.eval

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483142

[ 6 ] Bug #483144 - CVE-2009-0356 Firefox Chrome privilege escalation via local .desktop files

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483144

[ 7 ] Bug #483150 - CVE-2009-0358 Firefox directives to not cache pages ignored

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483150

su -c 'yum update epiphany' 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: 2.22.2
Release: 7.fc9
Summary: GNOME web browser based on the Mozilla rendering engine

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