[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: firefox-3.0.6-1.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-1399
2009-02-06 04:16:47
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Name        : firefox
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 3.0.6
Release     : 1.fc9
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:

Update to the new upstream Firefox 3.0.6 / XULRunner 1.9.0.6 fixing multiple
security issues:  http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-
vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefox3.0.6    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 Feb  4 2009 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> - 3.0.6-1
- Update to 3.0.6
* Wed Jan  7 2009 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 3.0.5-2
- Fixed wrong LANG and LC_MESSAGES variables interpretation (#441973) 
  in startup script.
* Tue Dec 16 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 3.0.5-1
- Update to 3.0.5
* Thu Nov 13 2008 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> 3.0.4-2
- Removed firefox-2.0-getstartpage.patch patch 
- Start page is set by different way
* Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 3.0.4-1
- Update to 3.0.4
* Tue Sep 23 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 3.0.2-1
- Update to 3.0.2
* Wed Jul 16 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 3.0.1-1
- Update to 3.0.1
* Tue Jun 17 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 3.0-1
- Firefox 3 Final
* Thu May  8 2008 Colin Walters <walters at redhat.com> 3.0-0.61
- Rebuild to pick up new xulrunner (bug #445543)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #483141 - CVE-2009-0353 Firefox javascript crashes with evidence of memory corruption
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483141
  [ 2 ] Bug #483143 - CVE-2009-0355 Firefox local file stealing with SessionStore
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483143
  [ 3 ] Bug #483145 - CVE-2009-0357 Firefox XMLHttpRequest allows reading HTTPOnly cookies
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483145
  [ 4 ] Bug #483139 - CVE-2009-0352 Firefox layout crashes with evidence of memory corruption
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483139
  [ 5 ] Bug #483142 - CVE-2009-0354 Firefox XSS using a chrome XBL method and window.eval
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483142
  [ 6 ] Bug #483144 - CVE-2009-0356 Firefox Chrome privilege escalation via local .desktop files
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483144
  [ 7 ] Bug #483150 - CVE-2009-0358 Firefox directives to not cache pages ignored
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483150
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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
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