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Fedora alert FEDORA-2011-8627 (firefox)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: firefox-5.0-1.fc15
Date:  Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:58:02 +0000
Message-ID:  <20110624175802.3D25010F988@bastion02.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-8627 2011-06-24 02:47:06 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : firefox Product : Fedora 15 Version : 5.0 Release : 1.fc15 URL : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ Summary : Mozilla Firefox Web browser Description : Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to new upstream Firefox version 5.0, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories: * http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/fir... See upstream release notes for more information about this new version: * http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/5.0/releasenotes/ This update ALSO contains a change to the GNOME 3 shell's gjs library, to make it use the standalone js package, to reduce risk of regression. It also includes all packages depending on gecko-libs rebuilt against the new version of Firefox / XULRunner. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Jun 21 2011 Martin Stransky <stransky@redhat.com> - 5.0-1 - Update to 5.0 * Tue May 10 2011 Martin Stransky <stransky@redhat.com> - 4.0.1-2 - Fixed rhbz#676183 - "firefox -g" is broken -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #676437 - Build gjs against the standalone SpiderMonkey package 'js', not XULRunner's copy https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676437 [ 2 ] Bug #715188 - Update to Firefox 5.0 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=715188 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update firefox' 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 https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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