Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 764
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 764

Fedora 9: 2009-1399 Critical: Kazehakase Browser Flaws Resolved

fedora
Calendar Grey February 6, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A recent update for Kazehakase on Fedora 9 delivers essential patches from Firefox version 3.0.6 that rectify numerous security issues within the browser.
Update to the new upstream Firefox 3.0.6 / XULRunner 1.9.0.6 fixing multiple security issues.

Summary

Kazehakase is a Web browser which aims to provide

a user interface that is truly user-friendly & fully customizable.

This package uses Gecko for HTML rendering engine.

Update to the new upstream Firefox 3.0.6 / XULRunner 1.9.0.6 fixing multiple

security issues: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/ This update also contains new

builds of all applications depending on Gecko libraries, built against the new

version. Note: after the updated packages are installed, Firefox must be

restarted for the update to take effect.

* Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.5.6-1.3

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 0.5.6-1.2

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon - 0.5.6-1.1

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Fri Oct 31 2008 Mamoru Tasaka - 0.5.6-1

- 0.5.6

- -UGTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED hack removed (hack introduced in upstream)

* Wed Sep 24 2008 Christopher Aillon

- Rebuild against newer gecko (F-9/8)

* Tue Aug 5 2008 Mamoru Tasaka

- Try rev. 3509

* Wed Jul 30 2008 Mamoru Tasaka - 0.5.5-1

- 0.5.5

* Sat Jul 19 2008 Mamoru Tasaka - 0.5.4-7.svn3506_trunk

- F-9+: relax gecko libs dependency (as GRE_GetGREPathWithProperties properly

finds out GRE)

- F-10+: add -UGTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED temporarily

* Tue Jul 15 2008 Christopher Aillon

- Rebuild against newer gecko (F-8)

* Wed Jul 2 2008 Christopher Aillon

- Rebuild against newer gecko (F-8)

* Sat Jun 28 2008 Mamoru Tasaka - 0.5.4-6.svn3506_trunk

- Try rev 3506

- Workaround for bug 447444 (xulrunner vs hunspell conflict) (F-9+)

* Wed Jun 25 2008 Mamoru Tasaka - 0.5.4-5

- Apply xulrunner related patches from debian by Mike Hommey

(debian bug 480796, rh bug 402641)

This time kazehakase actually works with xulrunner!

[ 1 ] Bug #483141 - CVE-2009-0353 Firefox javascript crashes with evidence of memory corruption

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483141

[ 2 ] Bug #483143 - CVE-2009-0355 Firefox local file stealing with SessionStore

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483143

[ 3 ] Bug #483145 - CVE-2009-0357 Firefox XMLHttpRequest allows reading HTTPOnly cookies

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483145

[ 4 ] Bug #483139 - CVE-2009-0352 Firefox layout crashes with evidence of memory corruption

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483139

[ 5 ] Bug #483142 - CVE-2009-0354 Firefox XSS using a chrome XBL method and window.eval

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483142

[ 6 ] Bug #483144 - CVE-2009-0356 Firefox Chrome privilege escalation via local .desktop files

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483144

[ 7 ] Bug #483150 - CVE-2009-0358 Firefox directives to not cache pages ignored

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483150

su -c 'yum update kazehakase' 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

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Product: Fedora 9
Version: 0.5.6
Release: 1.fc9.3
URL: Summary : Kazehakase browser using Gecko rendering engine

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Your message here