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Fedora: 2009-6411 Critical: Ruby-GNOME2 Firefox Security Fix

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Calendar Grey June 15, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 9's new Ruby-GNOME2 upgrade tackles significant security vulnerabilities in Firefox, improving overall system protection.
Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.0.11, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities...

Summary

This is a set of bindings for the GNOME-2.x libraries for use from Ruby.

Update Information:

Update to new upstream Firefox version 3.0.11, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/ Update also includes all packages depending on gecko-libs rebuild against new version of Firefox / XULRunner.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical Fedora Firefox gecko-libs Ruby-GNOME2

Change Log

* Thu Jun 11 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.17.0-10 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Apr 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.17.0-9 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Apr 21 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.17.0-8 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Mar 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.17.0-7 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 0.17.0-6 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 0.17.0-5 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 0.17.0-4 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon - 0.17.0-3 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Sep 24 2008 Christopher Aillon - 0.17.0-2 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Thu Sep 18 2008 Mamoru Tasaka 0.17.0-1 - Update to 0.17.0 - Patch from svn to fix Ruby/GLib bug (bug 456816) * Sat Jul 19 2008 Mamoru Tasaka - 0.17.0-0.4.rc1 - F-9+: relax gecko libs dependency - F-9+: bump version to fix EVR problem between F-8 branch * Fri Jun 20 2008 Martin Stransky - 0.17.0-0.2.rc1 - Rebuild against new xulrunner * Sun Jun 8 2008 Mamoru Tasaka - 0.17.0-0.1.rc1 - 0.17.0 rc1 - Remove upstreamed patches - 2 patches remain - ruby-gnome2-0.17.0-rc1-script.patch - ruby-gnome2-all-0.16.0-xulrunner.patch - Restrict ruby abi dependency to exact 1.8 version - Fix the license (to strict LGPLv2)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #503568 - CVE-2009-1392 Firefox browser engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503568 [ 2 ] Bug #503569 - CVE-2009-1832 Firefox double frame construction flaw https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503569 [ 3 ] Bug #503570 - CVE-2009-1833 Firefox JavaScript engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503570 [ 4 ] Bug #503573 - CVE-2009-1834 Firefox URL spoofing with invalid unicode characters https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503573 [ 5 ] Bug #503576 - CVE-2009-1835 Firefox Arbitrary domain cookie access by local file: resources https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503576 [ 6 ] Bug #503578 - CVE-2009-1836 Firefox SSL tampering via non-200 responses to proxy CONNECT requests https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503578 [ 7 ] Bug #503579 - CVE-2009-1837 Firefox Race condition while accessing the private data of a NPObject JS wrapper class object ...

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Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update ruby-gnome2' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: ruby-gnome2
Product: Fedora 9
Version: 0.17.0
Release: 10.fc9
URL: Summary : Ruby binding of libgnome/libgnomeui-2.x

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical Fedora Firefox gecko-libs Ruby-GNOME2

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