[SECURITY] Fedora Core 6 Update: epiphany-2.16.2-1.fc6

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Wed Dec 20 23:36:20 UTC 2006


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-1492
2006-12-20
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Product     : Fedora Core 6
Name        : epiphany
Version     : 2.16.2
Release     : 1.fc6
Summary     : GNOME web browser based on the Mozilla rendering engine
Description :
epiphany is a simple GNOME web browser based on the Mozilla rendering
engine

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Update Information:

Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser.

Several flaws were found in the way Firefox processes
certain malformed JavaScript code. A malicious web page
could cause the execution of JavaScript code in such a way
that could cause Firefox to crash or execute arbitrary code
as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2006-6498, CVE-2006-6501,
CVE-2006-6502, CVE-2006-6503, CVE-2006-6504)

Several flaws were found in the way Firefox renders web
pages. A malicious web page could cause the browser to crash
or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running
Firefox. (CVE-2006-6497)

Users of Firefox are advised to upgrade to these erratum
packages, which contain Firefox version 1.5.0.9 that
corrects these issues. 

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* Wed Dec 20 2006 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> - 2.16.2-1
- Update to 2.16.2
* Tue Dec 19 2006 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> - 2.16.0-6.fc6
- Rebuild against newer gecko

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This update can be downloaded from:
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/

bfb64e1c0e2259a474e2199f2656b11d3bb7027e  SRPMS/epiphany-2.16.2-1.fc6.src.rpm
bfb64e1c0e2259a474e2199f2656b11d3bb7027e  noarch/epiphany-2.16.2-1.fc6.src.rpm
de3f1c790567b744101e8bc5f1746e7dfa3dc2a2  ppc/debug/epiphany-debuginfo-2.16.2-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
b1ce27f3ffa935bb993861c794dcfd8d366a50c4  ppc/epiphany-devel-2.16.2-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
f49b97d088b52b7df01cb0f230eb2cee82661c66  ppc/epiphany-2.16.2-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
6cdec2f4dab14b62a028466309539d2bbf64fb40  x86_64/debug/epiphany-debuginfo-2.16.2-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
d7d66e5ba8f049d8729c6923917421c558907068  x86_64/epiphany-devel-2.16.2-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
3bad04377ec66504a2431fd017d11cdb62ce0062  x86_64/epiphany-2.16.2-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
f62e4c0125d73e321a242664347afb8973d3fb00  i386/epiphany-devel-2.16.2-1.fc6.i386.rpm
819bcbed453d82a275410d358cefee62361ca4e0  i386/epiphany-2.16.2-1.fc6.i386.rpm
592eb14f22e58455c0fc9f245cc58d65ce5d8b7a  i386/debug/epiphany-debuginfo-2.16.2-1.fc6.i386.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program.  Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line.  For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.
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