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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-2682 (blam)
| From: | updates@fedoraproject.org | |
| To: | fedora-package-announce@redhat.com | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: blam-1.8.3-14.fc8 | |
| Date: | Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:14:06 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <200803261719.m2QHJoT8004527@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-2682 2008-03-26 16:46:54 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : blam Product : Fedora 8 Version : 1.8.3 Release : 14.fc8 URL : http://www.cmartin.tk/blam.html Summary : An RSS/RDF feed reader Description : Blam is a tool that helps you keep track of the growing number of news feeds distributed as RSS. Blam lets you subscribe to any number of feeds and provides an easy to use and clean interface to stay up to date -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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> - 1.8.3-14 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Feb 8 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 1.8.3-13 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Nov 27 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 1.8.3-12 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Thu Nov 22 2007 Peter Gordon <peter@thecodergeek.com> - 1.8.3-11 - Fix CVE-2005-4790 (bug 252294). * Tue Nov 13 2007 Peter Gordon <peter@thecodergeek.com> - 1.8.3-10 - Rebuild for new Gecko (Firefox 2.0.0.9). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 blam' 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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