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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-3249 (yelp)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: yelp-2.18.1-11.fc7
Date:  Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:40:41 +0000
Message-ID:  <200804222254.m3MMs8EH019472@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-3249 2008-04-22 22:14:28 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : yelp Product : Fedora 7 Version : 2.18.1 Release : 11.fc7 URL : http://live.gnome.org/Yelp Summary : A system documentation reader from the Gnome project Description : 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: 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> - 2.18.1-11 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Mar 25 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 2.18-1-10 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Feb 8 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 2.18-1-9 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Nov 27 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 2.18-1-8 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Nov 5 2007 Martin Stransky <stransky@redhat.com> - 2.18.1-7 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Oct 19 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 2.18.1-6 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Jul 18 2007 Kai Engert <kengert@redhat.com> - 2.18.1-5 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri May 25 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 2.18.1-4 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Apr 18 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> - 2.18.1-3 - Improve the man parser a bit - Fix another crash in the info parser -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 yelp' 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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