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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-6491 (gnome-web-photo)
| From: | updates@fedoraproject.org | |
| To: | fedora-package-announce@redhat.com | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: gnome-web-photo-0.3-12.fc8 | |
| Date: | Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:07:34 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <200807180807.m6I87YqN019131@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-6491 2008-07-18 01:38:21 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : gnome-web-photo Product : Fedora 8 Version : 0.3 Release : 12.fc8 URL : http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-web-photo/0.3/ Summary : HTML pages thumbnailer Description : gnome-web-photo contains a thumbnailer that will be used by GNOME applications, including the file manager, to generate screenshots of web pages. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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> - 0.3-12 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Jul 2 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 0.3-11 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Apr 16 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 0.3-10 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Mar 25 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 0.3-9 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Fri Feb 8 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 0.3-8 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Nov 27 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 0.3-7 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Nov 6 2007 - Martin Stransky <stransky@redhat.com> - 0.3-6 - Rebuild for new Gecko * Thu Oct 25 2007 - Bastien Nocera <bnocera@redhat.com> - 0.3-5 - Rebuild for new Gecko, tighten dependencies -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 gnome-web-photo' 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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