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Fedora 9: 2009-3099 Critical Memory Corruption in Epiphany Extensions

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Calendar Grey March 27, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Major Fedora 9 epiphany-extensions patch resolves memory leak that could enable possible remote attacks.
Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser

Summary

Epiphany Extensions is a collection of extensions for Epiphany, the

GNOME web browser.

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 - 2.22.1-9

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Fri Mar 6 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.22.1-8

- Rebuild for newer gecko

* Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.22.1-7

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.22.1-6

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.22.1-5

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Sep 24 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.22.1-4

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Thu Jul 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.22.1-3

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Sun Jun 22 2008 Martin Stransky - 2.22.1-2

- Rebuild against newer gecko

su -c 'yum update epiphany-extensions' 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/

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Product: Fedora 9
Version: 2.22.1
Release: 9.fc9
Summary: Extensions for Epiphany, the GNOME web browser

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