Fedora: 2009-3099 Critical: Remote Code Execution Risk in Firefox 3.0.8-1

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

compliance, performance and portability.

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 - 3.0.8-1

- Update to 3.0.8

* Wed Mar 4 2009 Jan Horak - 3.0.7-1

- Update to 3.0.7

* Thu Feb 26 2009 Jan Horak - 3.0.6-2

- Fixed spelling mistake in firefox.sh.in

* 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)

su -c 'yum update firefox' at the command line.

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