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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-11598 (blam)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: blam-1.8.5-4.fc9.1
Date:  Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:37:20 +0000
Message-ID:  <20081221083720.BEEC6208DB1@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-11598 2008-12-21 00:44:48 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : blam Product : Fedora 9 Version : 1.8.5 Release : 4.fc9.1 URL : http://www.cmartin.tk/blam.html Summary : An RSS/RDF feed reader Description : Blam is a tool that helps you keep track of the growing number of news feeds distributed as RSS. Blam lets you subscribe to any number of feeds and provides an easy to use and clean interface to stay up to date -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to the new upstream Firefox 3.0.5 / XULRunner 1.9.0.5 fixing multiple security issues: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefox3.0.5 This update also contains new builds of all applications depending on Gecko libraries, built against thenew version. Note: after the updated packages are installed, Firefox must be restarted for the update to take effect. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 1.8.5-4.1 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Tue Nov 18 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - Rebuild against newer gtk-sharp2 (bug 468055) * Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 1.8.5-3 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Sep 24 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 1.8.5-2 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Mon Jul 21 2008 Alex Lancaster <alexlan[AT]fedoraproject org> - 1.8.5-1 - Update to upstream (1.8.5), fixes FTBS (#434382) - Set gecko version to new xulrunner: 1.9.0.5 - BR: gecko-devel-unstable - Drop a number of patches which no longer apply - Add new icons to file list. * Tue Feb 19 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.3-14 - Autorebuild for GCC 4.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #476267 - CVE-2008-5501 Layout engine crash - Firefox 3 only https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476267 [ 2 ] Bug #476287 - CVE-2008-5512 Firefox JavaScript privilege escalation https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476287 [ 3 ] Bug #476278 - CVE-2008-5506 Firefox XMLHttpRequest 302 response disclosure https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476278 [ 4 ] Bug #476283 - CVE-2008-5510 Firefox null characters ignored by CSS parser https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476283 [ 5 ] Bug #476289 - CVE-2008-5513 Firefox XSS vulnerabilities in SessionStore https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476289 [ 6 ] Bug #476280 - CVE-2008-5507 Firefox Cross-domain data theft via script redirect error message https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476280 [ 7 ] Bug #476266 - CVE-2008-5500 Layout engine crashes - Firefox 2 and 3 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476266 [ 8 ] Bug #476285 - CVE-2008-5511 Firefox XSS via XBL bindings to unloaded document https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476285 [ 9 ] Bug #476274 - CVE-2008-5505 Firefox 3 User tracking via XUL persist attribute https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476274 [ 10 ] Bug #476269 - CVE-2008-5502 JavaScript engine crash - Firefox 3 only https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476269 [ 11 ] Bug #476281 - CVE-2008-5508 Firefox errors parsing URLs with control characters https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476281 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update blam' 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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