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Fedora 9: FEDORA-2009-3099 Critical Update for Firefox Memory Issues

fedora
Calendar Grey March 27, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An important patch for Fedora 9's yelp resolving memory vulnerabilities in Firefox through XULRunner that could compromise system integrity.
Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser

Summary

Yelp is the Gnome 2 help/documentation browser. It is designed

to help you browse all the documentation on your system in

one central tool.

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 - 2.22.1-10

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Fri Mar 6 2009 Jan Horak - 2.22.1-9

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.22.1-8

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.22.1-7

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.22.1-6

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Sep 24 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.22.1-5

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Jul 16 2008 Christopher Aillon - 2.22.1-4

- Rebuild against newer gecko

* Wed Jun 18 2008 Martin Stransky - 2.22.1-3

- rebuild against xulrunner

* Mon May 19 2008 Matthew Barnes - 2.22.1-2

- Require docbook-dtds (RH bug #447209).

su -c 'yum update yelp' 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

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: 2.22.1
Release: 10.fc9
URL:
Summary: A system documentation reader from the Gnome project

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