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Fedora 9 Update: 2009-3099 Critical Firefox RCE and Memory Flaws

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Calendar Grey March 27, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest patch for gtkmozembedmm tackles significant memory vulnerabilities in Firefox, bolstering both security and reliability for users in Fedora.
Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser

Summary

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.

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/

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Product: Fedora 9
Version: 1.4.2.cvs20060817
Release: 27.fc9
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Summary: C++ wrapper for GtkMozembed

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