Fedora 9: 2009-3099 Moderate: Firefox Memory Flaw Threat

The gnome-python-extra package contains the source packages for additional

Python bindings for GNOME. It should be used together with gnome-python.

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 - 2.19.1-25

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 2.19.1-24

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.19.1-23

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.19.1-22

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.19.1-21

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Mon Oct 27 2008 Matthew Barnes - 2.19.1-20

- Provide Python bindings for libgdl on ppc64 (RH bug #468693).

* Thu Oct 9 2008 Matthew Barnes - 2.19.1-19

- Remove gtkspell-static patch. Appears to not be needed anymore.

* Wed Sep 24 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.19.1-18

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Fri Jul 18 2008 Paul W. Frields - 2.19.1-17.fc9

- Rebuild against new xulrunner (1.9.0.1) and fix dependencies

* Fri Jun 20 2008 Martin Stransky - 2.19.1-16.fc9

- Rebuild against new gecko-libs 1.9 (xulrunner)

su -c 'yum update gnome-python2-extras' at the command line.

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