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Fedora 9: 2009-3099 Critical: gnome-web-photo Memory Flaws

fedora
Calendar Grey March 27, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade of gnome-web-photo addresses vital memory concerns in Firefox on Fedora, improving both performance and security.
Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser

Summary

gnome-web-photo contains a thumbnailer that will be used by GNOME applications,

including the file manager, to generate screenshots of web pages.

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 - 0.3-19

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 0.3-18

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.3-17

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 0.3-16

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon - 0.3-15

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Sep 24 2008 Christopher Aillon - 0.3-14

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Mon Jul 21 2008 Martin Stransky - 0.3-13

- Rebuild against new xulrunner

* Fri Jun 20 2008 Martin Stransky - 0.3-12

- Rebuild against new xulrunner

su -c 'yum update gnome-web-photo' 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

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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 9
Version: 0.3
Release: 19.fc9
Summary: HTML pages thumbnailer

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