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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-6491 (kazehakase)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: kazehakase-0.5.4-2.fc8.3
Date:  Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:07:34 +0000
Message-ID:  <200807180807.m6I86gxK019069@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18 01:38:21 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : kazehakase Product : Fedora 8 Version : 0.5.4 Release : 2.fc8.3 URL : http://kazehakase.sourceforge.jp/ Summary : Kazehakase browser using Gecko rendering engine Description : Kazehakase is a Web browser which aims to provide a user interface that is truly user-friendly & fully customizable. This package uses Gecko for HTML rendering engine. If you want to use WebKit for HTML rendering engine, install "kazehakase-webkit" rpm instead. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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> - 0.5.4-2.3 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Jul 2 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 0.5.4-2.2 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Apr 16 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 0.5.4-2.1 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Apr 14 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.4-2 - Rebuild for new WebKit (F-7/8: bug 438531) * Sun Mar 30 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.4-1 - 0.5.4 * Fri Mar 28 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.3-6.svn3501_trunk - Try svn 3501 (still not work against xulrunner :( ) * Tue Mar 25 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 0.5.3-5 - Rebuild against newer gecko (F-7/8) * Wed Mar 5 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.3-4 - Create kazehakase-base, split gecko.so from -base package so that users can install only WebKit based package. * Sun Mar 2 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.3-3 - Support WebGTK * Sat Mar 1 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.3-1 - 0.5.3 * Fri Feb 29 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.2-8.svn3410_trunk - More try to use xulrunner * GRE version fix * Remove seemingly undesirable linking * Sun Feb 24 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.2-7.svn3391_trunk - More try to use xulrunner * Fix linkage for gecko.so * Don't use MOZILLA_INTERNAL_API anymore * NS_NewStorageStream should be changed to use xpcom http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Migrating_from_Inter... * Sat Feb 23 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.2-2.svn3391_trunk - F-9: Try latest svn for xulrunner * Fri Feb 15 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.2-1.2.svn3358 - F-9: Try latest svn for xulrunner (Still build explicitly disabled. Now it builds, does not crash but hangs eternally...) * Sat Feb 9 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - Rebuild for new gecko engine (F-7/F-8) * Wed Jan 30 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.2-1 - 0.5.2 * Tue Nov 27 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - F-7/8: Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Nov 12 2007 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.0-2 - F-9: try to switch to xulrunner * Tue Nov 6 2007 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.0-1.dist.1 - Rebuild against new gecko engine - Switch to use gecko virtual dependency (bug 352091) * Mon Oct 29 2007 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 0.5.0-1 - 0.5.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 kazehakase' 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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