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Fedora 9: FEDORA-2009-3875 Critical: yelp Documentation Browser Update

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Calendar Grey April 23, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Enhancements in Yelp for Fedora 9 upgrade boost the performance of the documentation viewer and resolve various stability concerns.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-3.0/

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.

Update Information:

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update Fedora system tools documentation enhancement

Change Log

* Tue Apr 21 2009 Christopher Aillon - 2.22.1-11 - Rebuild against newer gecko * 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).

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 yelp' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: yelp
Product: Fedora 9
Version: 2.22.1
Release: 11.fc9
URL:
Summary: A system documentation reader from the Gnome project

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update Fedora system tools documentation enhancement

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