[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: WebKit-1.0.0-0.10.svn34655.fc8

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-6220
2008-07-09 00:01:08
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Name        : WebKit
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 1.0.0
Release     : 0.10.svn34655.fc8
URL         : http://webkit.org/
Summary     : Web content engine library
Description :
WebKit is an open source web browser engine.

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Update Information:

This updated WebKit snapshot fixes CVE-2008-2307. (A memory  corruption issue
exists in WebKit's handling of JavaScript  arrays. Visiting a maliciously
crafted website may lead to an  unexpected application termination or arbitrary
code execution.)
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Jul  6 2008 Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> 1.0.0-0.10.svn34655
- Update to new upstream snapshot (SVN 34655)
- Resolves: CVE-2008-2307 (bug #454092: memory corruption in handling of
  JavaScript arrays)
- Add some build-time conditionals for non-default features: debug, html5video,
  pango, svg. 
- libqtwebico.so is no longer supported.
* Mon Apr 28 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 1.0.0-0.9.svn32531
- Update to new upstream snapshot (SVN 32531).
- Fix bug 443048 and hopefully fix bug 444445
- Modify the process of building GTK+ port a bit
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #454092 - CVE-2008-2307 WebKit: memory corruption in handling of JavaScript arrays
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454092
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update WebKit' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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