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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-3283 (galeon)
| From: | updates@fedoraproject.org | |
| To: | fedora-package-announce@redhat.com | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: galeon-2.0.4-2.fc8.3 | |
| Date: | Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:45:12 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <200804222258.m3MMweV6020062@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-3283 2008-04-22 22:17:20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : galeon Product : Fedora 8 Version : 2.0.4 Release : 2.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. 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> - 2.0.4-2.3 - Rebuild against newer gecko * 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 #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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