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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-6518 (epiphany-extensions)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-6518 2008-07-18 01:38:11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : epiphany-extensions Product : Fedora 9 Version : 2.22.1 Release : 3.fc9 URL : http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/extensions Summary : Extensions for Epiphany, the GNOME web browser Description : Epiphany Extensions is a collection of extensions for Epiphany, the GNOME web browser. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Updated firefox packages that fix several security issues are now available for Fedora 9. 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 3.0.1 to address these flaws: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefox3.0.1 This update also contains devhelp, epiphany, epiphany-extensions, and yelp packages rebuilt against new Firefox / Gecko libraries. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Jul 17 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 2.22.1-3 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Sun Jun 22 2008 Martin Stransky <stransky@redhat.com> - 2.22.1-2 - Rebuild against newer gecko -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 epiphany-extensions' 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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