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Fedora 9: FEDORA-2009-3099 Critical: Firefox Memory Flaws Exploit

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Calendar Grey March 27, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A recent patch for Fedora 9 fixes vulnerabilities in Firefox that could affect both security and performance. Strengthen your defense with this updated version.
Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser

Summary

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

engine.

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 - 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

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/

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical software update memory corruption firefox browser exploit

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical software update memory corruption firefox browser exploit

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