[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: yelp-2.20.0-15.fc8

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-11551
2008-12-21 00:44:01
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Name        : yelp
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 2.20.0
Release     : 15.fc8
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.

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Update Information:

Update to the new upstream Firefox release 2.0.0.19 fixing multiple security
issues:  http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-
vulnerabilities/firefox20.html#firefox2.0.0.19    This update also contains new
builds of all applications depending on Gecko libraries, built against the new
version.    Note: after the updated packages are installed, Firefox must be
restarted for the update to take effect.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> - 2.20.0-15
- Rebuild against newer gecko
* Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> - 2.20.0-14
- Rebuild against newer gecko
* Tue Sep 23 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> - 2.20.0-13
- Rebuild against newer gecko
* Mon Aug 25 2008 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes at redhat.com> - 2.20.0-12
- Add patch for RH bug #459487 (format string vulnerability).
* Tue Jul 15 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> - 2.20.0-11
- Rebuild against newer gecko
* Wed Jul  2 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> - 2.20.0-10
- Rebuild against newer gecko
* Wed Apr 16 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> - 2.20.0-9
- Rebuild against newer gecko
* Tue Mar 25 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> - 2.20.0-8
- Rebuild against newer gecko
* Fri Feb  8 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> - 2.20.0-7
- Rebuild against newer gecko
* Tue Nov 27 2007 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> - 2.20.0-6
- Rebuild against newer gecko
* Mon Nov  5 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> - 2.20.0-5
- Fix a crash in search (#361041)
* Mon Nov  5 2007 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> - 2.20.0-4
- Rebuild against new firefox
* Sun Nov  4 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> - 2.20.0-3
- Fix a crash when loading the rarian docs
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #476266 - CVE-2008-5500 Layout engine crashes - Firefox 2 and 3
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476266
  [ 2 ] Bug #476281 - CVE-2008-5508 Firefox errors parsing URLs with control characters
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476281
  [ 3 ] Bug #476289 - CVE-2008-5513 Firefox XSS vulnerabilities in SessionStore
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476289
  [ 4 ] Bug #476272 - CVE-2008-5503 Firefox 2  Information stealing via loadBindingDocument
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476272
  [ 5 ] Bug #476273 - CVE-2008-5504 Firefox 2 XSS attack vectors in feed preview
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476273
  [ 6 ] Bug #476278 - CVE-2008-5506 Firefox XMLHttpRequest 302 response disclosure
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476278
  [ 7 ] Bug #476285 - CVE-2008-5511 Firefox XSS via XBL bindings to unloaded document
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476285
  [ 8 ] Bug #476280 - CVE-2008-5507 Firefox Cross-domain data theft via script redirect error message
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476280
  [ 9 ] Bug #476283 - CVE-2008-5510 Firefox null characters ignored by CSS parser
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476283
  [ 10 ] Bug #476287 - CVE-2008-5512 Firefox JavaScript privilege escalation
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476287
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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
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