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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-11598 (yelp)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: yelp-2.22.1-7.fc9
Date:  Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:37:20 +0000
Message-ID:  <20081221083721.1260C208DC3@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-11598 2008-12-21 00:44:48 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : yelp Product : Fedora 9 Version : 2.22.1 Release : 7.fc9 URL : http://live.gnome.org/Yelp Summary : A system documentation reader from the Gnome project Description : Yelp is the Gnome 2 help/documentation browser. It is designed to help you browse all the documentation on your system in one central tool. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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> - 2.22.1-7 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 2.22.1-6 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Sep 24 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 2.22.1-5 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Jul 16 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> - 2.22.1-4 - Rebuild against newer gecko * Wed Jun 18 2008 Martin Stransky <stransky@redhat.com> - 2.22.1-3 - rebuild against xulrunner * Mon May 19 2008 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes@redhat.com> - 2.22.1-2 - Require docbook-dtds (RH bug #447209). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 yelp' 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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