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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-6491 (liferea)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: liferea-1.4.15-3.fc8
Date:  Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:07:34 +0000
Message-ID:  <200807180807.m6I87YqU019131@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18 01:38:21 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : liferea Product : Fedora 8 Version : 1.4.15 Release : 3.fc8 URL : http://liferea.sourceforge.net/ Summary : An RSS/RDF feed reader Description : Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an RSS/RDF feed reader. It's intended to be a clone of the Windows-only FeedReader. It can be used to maintain a list of subscribed feeds, browse through their items, and show their contents. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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> - 1.4.15-3 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Jul 2 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 1.4.15-2 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Thu May 15 2008 Marc Wiriadisastra <marc@mwiriadi.id.au> - 1.4.15-1 - New version rebuild for F-8 and F-7 * Mon Apr 7 2008 Alex Lancaster <alexlan[AT]fedoraproject org> - 1.4.13-2 - Rebuild for N-E-V-R issues. * Mon Mar 17 2008 Marc Wiriadisastra <marc@mwiriadi.id.au> - 1.4.13-1 - Updated to latest stable version * Sat Feb 23 2008 Marc Wiriadisastra <marc@mwiriadi.id.au> - 1.4.12-2 - Fixed fedora feed for fedora weekly news * Wed Feb 20 2008 Marc Wiriadisastra <marc@mwiriadi.id.au> - 1.4.12-1 - new version - builds with gcc4.3 - added firefox-devel and xulrunner-devel for different fedora's * Fri Feb 8 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 1.4.11-2 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Thu Jan 17 2008 Brian Pepple <bpepple@fedoraproject.org> - 1.4.11-1 - Update to 1.4.11. release fixes news bin crasher. (#429021) * Wed Dec 19 2007 Brian Pepple <bpepple@fedoraproject.org> - 1.4.10-1 - Update to 1.4.10. - Update feed patch. * Sun Dec 2 2007 Brian Pepple <bpepple@fedoraproject.org> - 1.4.9-1 - Update to 1.4.9. - Update feed patch. * Tue Nov 27 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 1.4.8-2 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Thu Nov 22 2007 Brian Pepple <bpepple@fedoraproject.org> - 1.4.8-1 - Update to 1.4.8. - fixes LD_LIBRARY_PATH security bug. CVE-2006-4791 * Thu Nov 15 2007 Brian Pepple <bpepple@fedoraproject.org> - 1.4.7-1 - Update to 1.4.7. - Drop opml & nm patches. fixed upstream. - Update fedora feed patch for 1.4.x. - add BR on sqlite-devel, dbus-devel, dbus-glib-devel, libglade2-devel. - Don't build gtkhtml2 plugin for now. * Tue Nov 6 2007 Brian Pepple <bpepple@fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.23-6 - Rebuild for new gecko libs. * Wed Oct 31 2007 Brian Pepple <bpepple@fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.23-5 - Add patch to fix opml security bug: CVE-2007-5751. (#360641) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 liferea' 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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