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Fedora 9: 2009-3875 Critical: xulrunner Application Crash

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Important enhancement for Fedora addresses vulnerabilities in xulrunner that affect the reliability and safety of internet applications.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/

Summary

XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Gecko applications.

Update Information:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora update information application crash xulrunner Gecko application

Change Log

* Tue Apr 21 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.9.0.9-1 - Update to 1.9.0.9 * Fri Mar 27 2009 Christopher Aillon - 1.9.0.8-1 - Update to 1.9.0.8 * Tue Mar 3 2009 Jan Horak - 1.9.0.7-1 - Update to 1.9.0.7 * Thu Feb 26 2009 Jan Horak - 1.9.0.6-2 - Fixed wrong version of Firefox when loading 'about:' as location (#453980). * Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon 1.9.0.6-1 - Update to 1.9.0.6 * Tue Dec 16 2008 Christopher Aillon 1.9.0.5-1 - Update to 1.9.0.5 * Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon 1.9.0.4-1 - Update to 1.9.0.4 * Tue Sep 23 2008 Christopher Aillon 1.9.0.2-1 - Update to 1.9.0.2 * Wed Jul 16 2008 Christopher Aillon 1.9.0.1-1 - Update to 1.9.0.1 * Mon Jun 30 2008 Dennis Gilmore 1.9-1.1 - handle sparc arches * Tue Jun 17 2008 Christopher Aillon 1.9-1 - Update to 1.9 final * Thu May 29 2008 Christopher Aillon 1.9-0.63 - Simplify PS/PDF operators* Thu May 22 2008 Christopher Aillon 1.9-0.62 - Upstream patch to fsync() less * Thu May 8 2008 Colin Walters 1.9-0.61 - Ensure we enable startup notification; add BR and modify config (bug #445543)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #496252 - CVE-2009-1302 Firefox 3 Layout engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496252 [ 2 ] Bug #496253 - CVE-2009-1303 Firefox 2 and 3 Layout engine crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496253 [ 3 ] Bug #496255 - CVE-2009-1304 Firefox 3 JavaScript engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496255 [ 4 ] Bug #496256 - CVE-2009-1305 Firefox 2 and 3 JavaScript engine crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496256 [ 5 ] Bug #486704 - CVE-2009-0652 firefox: does not properly prevent the literal rendering of homoglyph characters in IDN domain names (spoof URLs and conduct phishing attacks) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486704 [ 6 ] Bug #496262 - CVE-2009-1306 Firefox jar: scheme ignores the content-disposition: header on the inner URI https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496262 [ 7 ] Bug #496263 - CVE-2009-1307 Firefox Same-origin violati...

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Update Instructions

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

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Name: xulrunner
Product: Fedora 9
Version: 1.9.0.9
Release: 1.fc9
URL: Summary : XUL Runtime for Gecko Applications

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security advisory critical Fedora update information application crash xulrunner Gecko application

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