[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: firefox-2.0.0.16-1.fc8
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Fri Jul 18 08:07:34 UTC 2008
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-6491
2008-07-18 01:38:21
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Name : firefox
Product : Fedora 8
Version : 2.0.0.16
Release : 1.fc8
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.
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Update Information:
Updated firefox packages that fix several security issues are now available for
Fedora 8. 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
2.0.0.16 to address these flaws: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-
vulnerabilities/firefox20.html#firefox2.0.0.16 This update also contains
blam, cairo-dock, chmsee, devhelp, epiphany, epiphany-extensions, galeon, gnome-
python2-extras, gnome-web-photo, gtkmozembedmm, kazehakase, liferea, Miro,
openvrml, ruby-gnome2 and yelp packages rebuilt against new Firefox / Gecko
libraries.
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ChangeLog:
* Tue Jul 15 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 2.0.0.16-1
- Update to 2.0.0.16
* Wed Jul 2 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 2.0.0.15-1
- Update to 2.0.0.15
* Wed Apr 16 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 2.0.0.14-1
- Update to 2.0.0.14
* Tue Mar 25 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 2.0.0.13-1
- Update to 2.0.0.13
* Fri Feb 8 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 2.0.0.12-1
- Update to 2.0.0.12
* Thu Dec 13 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 2.0.0.10-3
- Fix the getStartPage method to not return blank.
Patch by pspencer at fields.utoronto.ca
* Wed Nov 28 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 2.0.0.10-2
- Make Canvas.drawImage work again
* Mon Nov 26 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 2.0.0.10-1
- Update to 2.0.0.10
* Mon Nov 5 2007 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> 2.0.0.9-1
- updated to the latest upstream
* Wed Oct 31 2007 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> 2.0.0.8-3
- added mozilla-plugin-config to startup script
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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
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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
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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