Fedora 9: 2009-3099 Critical: Firefox Memory Flaws & Exploits

This package provides a C++/gtkmm wrapper for GtkMozEmbed

from Mozilla 1.4.x to 1.7.x.

The wrapper provides a convenient interface for C++ programmers

to use the Gtkmozembed HTML-rendering widget inside their software.

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 - 1.4.2.cvs20060817-27

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 1.4.2.cvs20060817-26

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.4.2.cvs20060817-25

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 1.4.2.cvs20060817-24

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 1.4.2.cvs20060817-23

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon - 1.4.2.cvs20060817-22

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Sep 24 2008 Christopher Aillon - 1.4.2.cvs20060817-21

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Fri Jun 20 2008 Martin Stransky - 1.4.2.cvs20060817-20

- rebuild against new gecko-libs 1.9 (xulrunner)

* Sat Apr 12 2008 Haïkel Guémar - 1.4.2.cvs20060817-19

- remove now useless sed one-liner.

- fixed gtkmozembedmm-1.4.2.cvs20060817-xulrunner.patch

- added gtkmozembedmm-1.4.2.cvs20060817-m4.patch

* Mon Feb 18 2008 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.4.2.cvs20060817-18

- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3

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

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