Fedora 9: FEDORA-2009-1399 Critical: Firefox 3.0.6 Security Fix

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards

compliance, performance and portability.

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 - 3.0.6-1

- Update to 3.0.6

* Wed Jan 7 2009 Jan Horak - 3.0.5-2

- Fixed wrong LANG and LC_MESSAGES variables interpretation (#441973)

in startup script.

* Tue Dec 16 2008 Christopher Aillon 3.0.5-1

- Update to 3.0.5

* Thu Nov 13 2008 Jan Horak 3.0.4-2

- Removed firefox-2.0-getstartpage.patch patch

- Start page is set by different way

* Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon 3.0.4-1

- Update to 3.0.4

* Tue Sep 23 2008 Christopher Aillon 3.0.2-1

- Update to 3.0.2

* Wed Jul 16 2008 Christopher Aillon 3.0.1-1

- Update to 3.0.1

* Tue Jun 17 2008 Christopher Aillon 3.0-1

- Firefox 3 Final

* Thu May 8 2008 Colin Walters 3.0-0.61

- Rebuild to pick up new xulrunner (bug #445543)

[ 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 firefox' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

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