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Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-2421 (firefox)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: firefox-3.0.7-1.fc9
Date:  Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:36:13 +0000
Message-ID:  <20090308193620.B715920820B@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-2421 2009-03-08 06:09:09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : firefox Product : Fedora 9 Version : 3.0.7 Release : 1.fc9 URL : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser Description : Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to the new upstream Firefox 3.0.7 / XULRunner 1.9.0.7 fixing multiple security issues: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefox3.0.7 This update also contains new builds of all applications depending on Gecko libraries, built against the new version. Note: after the updated packages are installed, Firefox must be restarted for the update to take effect. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Mar 4 2009 Jan Horak <jhorak@redhat.com> - 3.0.7-1 - Update to 3.0.7 * Thu Feb 26 2009 Jan Horak <jhorak@redhat.com> - 3.0.6-2 - Fixed spelling mistake in firefox.sh.in * Wed Feb 4 2009 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 3.0.6-1 - Update to 3.0.6 * Wed Jan 7 2009 Jan Horak <jhorak@redhat.com> - 3.0.5-2 - Fixed wrong LANG and LC_MESSAGES variables interpretation (#441973) in startup script. * Tue Dec 16 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 3.0.5-1 - Update to 3.0.5 * Thu Nov 13 2008 Jan Horak <jhorak@redhat.com> 3.0.4-2 - Removed firefox-2.0-getstartpage.patch patch - Start page is set by different way * Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 3.0.4-1 - Update to 3.0.4 * Tue Sep 23 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 3.0.2-1 - Update to 3.0.2 * Wed Jul 16 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 3.0.1-1 - Update to 3.0.1 * Tue Jun 17 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 3.0-1 - Firefox 3 Final * Thu May 8 2008 Colin Walters <walters@redhat.com> 3.0-0.61 - Rebuild to pick up new xulrunner (bug #445543) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #488272 - CVE-2009-0771 Firefox 3 Layout Engine Crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488272 [ 2 ] Bug #488273 - CVE-2009-0772 Firefox 2 and 3 - Layout engine crashes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488273 [ 3 ] Bug #488276 - CVE-2009-0773 Firefox 3 crashes in the JavaScript engine https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488276 [ 4 ] Bug #488283 - CVE-2009-0774 Firefox 2 and 3 crashes in the JavaScript engine https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488283 [ 5 ] Bug #488287 - CVE-2009-0775 Firefox XUL Linked Clones Double Free Vulnerability https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488287 [ 6 ] Bug #488290 - CVE-2009-0776 Firefox XML data theft via RDFXMLDataSource and cross-domain redirect https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488290 [ 7 ] Bug #488292 - CVE-2009-0777 Firefox URL spoofing with invisible control characters https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488292 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update firefox' 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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