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Fedora 9: 2009-1399 Moderate: ruby-gnome2 Memory Flaw Updates

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Calendar Grey February 6, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 9 releases updated ruby-gnome2 that resolves various vulnerabilities in Firefox, addressing several security flaws linked to memory corruption.
Update to the new upstream Firefox 3.0.6 / XULRunner 1.9.0.6 fixing multiple security issues.

Summary

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

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 - 0.17.0-5

- 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)

[ 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 ruby-gnome2' 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

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Product: Fedora 9
Version: 0.17.0
Release: 5.fc9
URL: Summary : Ruby binding of libgnome/libgnomeui-2.x

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