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Fedora 9: Critical Security Update for Firefox Memory Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Debian patch tackles vital memory concerns in GNOME Web, which is based on Chromium, providing enhanced reliability and protection.
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/

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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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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