Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-6518 (yelp)
| From: | updates@fedoraproject.org | |
| To: | fedora-package-announce@redhat.com | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: yelp-2.22.1-4.fc9 | |
| Date: | Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:05:53 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <200807180805.m6I85s2E018965@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-6518 2008-07-18 01:38:11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : yelp Product : Fedora 9 Version : 2.22.1 Release : 4.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: Updated firefox packages that fix several security issues are now available for Fedora 9. 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 3.0.1 to address these flaws: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefox3.0.1 This update also contains devhelp, epiphany, epiphany-extensions, and yelp packages rebuilt against new Firefox / Gecko libraries. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * 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 #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 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...