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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-6491 (Miro)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: Miro-1.2.3-3.fc8
Date:  Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:07:34 +0000
Message-ID:  <200807180807.m6I86gxI019069@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18 01:38:21 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : Miro Product : Fedora 8 Version : 1.2.3 Release : 3.fc8 URL : http://www.getmiro.com/ Summary : Miro - Internet TV Player Description : Miro is a free application that turns your computer into an internet TV video player. This release is still a beta version, which means that there are some bugs, but we're moving quickly to fix them and will be releasing bug fixes on a regular basis. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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> - 1.2.3-3 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Jul 2 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 1.2.3-2 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Apr 29 2008 Alex Lancaster <alexlan[AT]fedoraproject org> - 1.2.3-1 - Update to new upstream release (1.2.3) * Wed Apr 16 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 1.2-2 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Sat Mar 29 2008 Alex Lancaster <alexlan[AT]fedoraproject org> - 1.2-1 - Update to latest upstream (1.2) * Tue Mar 25 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 1.1.2-2 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Mar 11 2008 Alex Lancaster <alexlan[AT]fedoraproject org> - 1.1.2-1 - Update to upstream 1.1.2 release * Fri Feb 8 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 1.1-3 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Jan 25 2008 Michel Salim <michel.sylvan@gmail.com> - 1.1-2 - Fix charset mismatch in download window - Remove shebangs from scripts - Sanitize end-of-line markers * Thu Jan 17 2008 Alex Lancaster <alexlan[AT]fedoraproject org> - 1.1-1 - Update to upstream 1.1 release - Add BuildRequires: openssl-devel * Mon Nov 26 2007 Alex Lancaster <alexlan[AT]fedoraproject org> 1.0-2 - Build against gecko-libs 1.8.1.10 (firefox 2.0.0.10) * Fri Nov 16 2007 Alex Lancaster <alexlan[AT]fedoraproject org> 1.0-1 - Update to latest upstream (1.0). * Fri Nov 9 2007 Alex Lancaster <alexlan[AT]fedoraproject org> 0.9.9.9-1 - Update to latest upstream (0.9.9.9) - Build against gecko-libs 1.8.1.9 (firefox 2.0.0.9) - Include xine_extractor in package (thanks to Jason Farrell) - Drop Miro-setup.py.patch * Thu Nov 1 2007 Alex Lancaster <alexlan[AT]fedoraproject org> 0.9.9.1-6 - Update patch with workaround suggested on: http://bugzilla.pculture.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8579 * Wed Oct 31 2007 Alex Lancaster <alexlan[AT]fedoraproject org> 0.9.9.1-5 - Add setup.py patch to ignore call to svn. * Tue Oct 30 2007 Alex Lancaster <alexlan[AT]fedoraproject org> 0.9.9.1-3 - Add BuildRequires: libXv-devel - Drop dbus patch * Sun Oct 28 2007 Alex Lancaster <alexlan[AT]fedoraproject org> 0.9.9.1-1 - Update to latest upstream (0.9.9.1) * Fri Oct 26 2007 Alex Lancaster <alexlan[AT]fedoraproject org> 0.9.8.1-8 - Replace Requires and BuildRequires for firefox with gecko to smooth eventual xulrunner transition -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Miro' 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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