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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-2682 (galeon)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: galeon-2.0.4-1.fc8.3
Date:  Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:14:06 +0000
Message-ID:  <200803261719.m2QHISbB004425@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-2682 2008-03-26 16:46:54 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : galeon Product : Fedora 8 Version : 2.0.4 Release : 1.fc8.3 URL : http://galeon.sourceforge.net/ Summary : GNOME2 Web browser based on Mozilla Description : Galeon is a web browser built around Gecko (Mozilla's rendering engine) and Necko (Mozilla's networking engine). It's a GNOME web browser, designed to take advantage of as many GNOME technologies as makes sense. Galeon was written to do just one thing - browse the web. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser. Several flaws were found in the processing of some malformed web content. A web page containing such malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2008-1233, CVE-2008-1235, CVE-2008-1236, CVE-2008-1237) Several flaws were found in the display of malformed web content. A web page containing specially-crafted content could, potentially, trick a Firefox user into surrendering sensitive information. (CVE-2008-1234, CVE-2008-1238, CVE-2008-1241) All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues, and are rebuilt against the update Firefox packages. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Mar 25 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 2.0.4-1.3 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Feb 8 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 2.0.4-1.2 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Sun Jan 6 2008 Denis Leroy <denis@poolshark.org> - 2.0.4-1.1 - Fixed plugin-wrapper patch * Sat Dec 15 2007 Denis Leroy <denis@poolshark.org> - 2.0.4-1 - Update to upstream 2.0.4 - Some patches integrated upstream, plugin-wrapper patch ported * Thu Nov 29 2007 Martin Stransky <stransky@redhat.com> - 2.0.3-17 - Updated patch for wrapped plugins * Tue Nov 27 2007 Denis Leroy <denis@poolshark.org> - 2.0.3-16 - Rebuild with gecko lib 1.8.1.10 * Mon Nov 19 2007 Martin Stransky <stransky@redhat.com> - 2.0.3-15 - Added support for wrapped plugins * Tue Nov 6 2007 Denis Leroy <denis@poolshark.org> - 2.0.3-14 - Rebuild with gecko lib 1.8.1.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #438721 - CVE-2008-1237 javascript crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438721 [ 2 ] Bug #438713 - CVE-2008-1233 Mozilla products XPCNativeWrapper pollution https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438713 [ 3 ] Bug #438717 - CVE-2008-1235 chrome privilege via wrong principal https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438717 [ 4 ] Bug #438715 - CVE-2008-1234 universal XSS using event handlers https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438715 [ 5 ] Bug #438718 - CVE-2008-1236 browser engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438718 [ 6 ] Bug #438724 - CVE-2008-1238 Referrer spoofing bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438724 [ 7 ] Bug #438730 - CVE-2008-1241 XUL popup spoofing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438730 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update galeon' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. 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 http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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