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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-3249 (galeon)
| From: | updates@fedoraproject.org | |
| To: | fedora-package-announce@redhat.com | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: galeon-2.0.3-17.fc7 | |
| Date: | Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:40:41 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <200804222254.m3MMs8EF019472@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-3249 2008-04-22 22:14:28 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : galeon Product : Fedora 7 Version : 2.0.3 Release : 17.fc7 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. A flaw was found in the processing of malformed JavaScript content. A web page containing such malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2008-1380) All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches that correct these issues. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Apr 16 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 2.0.3-17 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Mar 25 2008 Denis Leroy <denis@poolshark.org> - 2.0.3-16 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Feb 8 2008 Denis Leroy <denis@poolshark.org> - 2.0.3-15 - Rebuild with gecko lib 1.8.1.10 * Tue Nov 27 2007 Denis Leroy <denis@poolshark.org> - 2.0.3-14 - Rebuild with gecko lib 1.8.1.10 * Tue Nov 6 2007 Denis Leroy <denis@poolshark.org> - 2.0.3-13 - Rebuild with gecko lib 1.8.1.9 * Wed Oct 24 2007 Alex Lancaster <alexl@users.sourceforge.net> - 2.0.3-12 - Rebuild with gecko-libs 1.8.1.8 (firefox 2.0.0.8) * Wed Sep 19 2007 Denis Leroy <denis@poolshark.org> - 2.0.3-11 - Added patch to fix image loading preference * Wed Jul 18 2007 Denis Leroy <denis@poolshark.org> - 2.0.3-10 - Rebuild with gecko-libs 1.8.1.5 * Fri Jun 1 2007 Denis Leroy <denis@poolshark.org> - 2.0.3-9 - Rebuild with gecko-libs 1.8.1.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #440518 - CVE-2008-1380 Firefox JavaScript garbage collection crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440518 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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