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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-2682 (kazehakase)
| From: | updates@fedoraproject.org | |
| To: | fedora-package-announce@redhat.com | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: kazehakase-0.5.3-5.fc8 | |
| Date: | Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:14:06 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <200803261719.m2QHJoT7004527@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-2682 2008-03-26 16:46:54 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : kazehakase Product : Fedora 8 Version : 0.5.3 Release : 5.fc8 URL : http://kazehakase.sourceforge.jp/ Summary : Kazehakase browser using Gecko rendering engine Description : Kazehakase is a Web browser which aims to provide a user interface that is truly user-friendly & fully customizable. This package uses Gecko for HTML rendering engine. If you want to use WebKit for HTML rendering engine, install "kazehakase-webkit" rpm instead. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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> - 0.5.3-5 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Mar 5 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.3-4 - Create kazehakase-base, split gecko.so from -base package so that users can install only WebKit based package. * Sun Mar 2 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.3-3 - Support WebGTK * Sat Mar 1 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.3-1 - 0.5.3 * Fri Feb 29 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.2-8.svn3410_trunk - More try to use xulrunner * GRE version fix * Remove seemingly undesirable linking * Sun Feb 24 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.2-7.svn3391_trunk - More try to use xulrunner * Fix linkage for gecko.so * Don't use MOZILLA_INTERNAL_API anymore * NS_NewStorageStream should be changed to use xpcom http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Migrating_from_Inter... * Sat Feb 23 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.2-2.svn3391_trunk - F-9: Try latest svn for xulrunner * Fri Feb 15 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.2-1.2.svn3358 - F-9: Try latest svn for xulrunner (Still build explicitly disabled. Now it builds, does not crash but hangs eternally...) * Sat Feb 9 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - Rebuild for new gecko engine (F-7/F-8) * Wed Jan 30 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.2-1 - 0.5.2 * Tue Nov 27 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - F-7/8: Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Nov 12 2007 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.0-2 - F-9: try to switch to xulrunner * Tue Nov 6 2007 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.0-1.dist.1 - Rebuild against new gecko engine - Switch to use gecko virtual dependency (bug 352091) * Mon Oct 29 2007 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.0-1 - 0.5.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 kazehakase' 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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