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Fedora 9: FEDORA-2009-5678 Critical: gnome-python2-extras Security Update

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Uncover the recent news on gnome-python2-extras within Fedora 9, featuring essential details about Python interfaces and resolved issues.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/

Summary

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

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

Update Information:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/

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Change Log

* Tue Apr 21 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.19.1-26 - Rebuild against newer gecko * 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)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #496252 - CVE-2009-1302 Firefox 3 Layout engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496252 [ 2 ] Bug #496253 - CVE-2009-1303 Firefox 2 and 3 Layout engine crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496253 [ 3 ] Bug #496255 - CVE-2009-1304 Firefox 3 JavaScript engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496255 [ 4 ] Bug #496256 - CVE-2009-1305 Firefox 2 and 3 JavaScript engine crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496256 [ 5 ] Bug #486704 - CVE-2009-0652 firefox: does not properly prevent the literal rendering of homoglyph characters in IDN domain names (spoof URLs and conduct phishing attacks) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486704 [ 6 ] Bug #496262 - CVE-2009-1306 Firefox jar: scheme ignores the content-disposition: header on the inner URI https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496262 [ 7 ] Bug #496263 - CVE-2009-1307 Firefox Same-origin violati...

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Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gnome-python2-extras' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: gnome-python2-extras
Product: Fedora 9
Version: 2.19.1
Release: 26.fc9
URL: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/pygobject/
Summary: The sources for additional. PyGNOME Python extension modules.

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