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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-6491 (yelp)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18 01:38:21 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : yelp Product : Fedora 8 Version : 2.20.0 Release : 11.fc8 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: Updated firefox packages that fix several security issues are now available for Fedora 8. An integer overflow flaw was found in the way Firefox displayed certain web content. A malicious web site could cause Firefox to crash, or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2008-2785) A flaw was found in the way Firefox handled certain command line URLs. If another application passed Firefox a malformed URL, it could result in Firefox executing local malicious content with chrome privileges. (CVE-2008-2933) Updated packages update Mozilla Firefox to upstream version 2.0.0.16 to address these flaws: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/firefox20.html#firefox2.0.0.16 This update also contains blam, cairo-dock, chmsee, devhelp, epiphany, epiphany-extensions, galeon, gnome- python2-extras, gnome-web-photo, gtkmozembedmm, kazehakase, liferea, Miro, openvrml, ruby-gnome2 and yelp packages rebuilt against new Firefox / Gecko libraries. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Jul 15 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 2.20.0-11 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Jul 2 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 2.20.0-10 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Apr 16 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 2.20.0-9 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Mar 25 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 2.20.0-8 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Feb 8 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 2.20.0-7 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Nov 27 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 2.20.0-6 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Nov 5 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> - 2.20.0-5 - Fix a crash in search (#361041) * Mon Nov 5 2007 Martin Stransky <stransky@redhat.com> - 2.20.0-4 - Rebuild against new firefox * Sun Nov 4 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> - 2.20.0-3 - Fix a crash when loading the rarian docs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #452204 - CVE-2008-2785 mozilla: CSS reference counter overflow (ZDI-CAN-349) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452204 [ 2 ] Bug #454697 - CVE-2008-2933 Firefox command line URL launches multi-tabs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454697 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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... (Log in to post comments)
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