[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: galeon-2.0.7-5.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-1399
2009-02-06 04:16:47
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Name        : galeon
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 2.0.7
Release     : 5.fc9
URL         : http://galeon.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : GNOME2 Web browser based on Mozilla
Description :
Galeon is a web browser built around Gecko (Mozilla's rendering
engine) and Necko (Mozilla's networking engine). It's a GNOME web
browser, designed to take advantage of as many GNOME technologies as
makes sense. Galeon was written to do just one thing - browse the web.

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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> - 2.0.7-5
- Rebuild against newer gecko
* Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> - 2.0.7-4
- Rebuild against newer gecko
* Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> - 2.0.7-3
- Rebuild against newer gecko
* Tue Oct  7 2008 Denis Leroy <denis at poolshark.org> - 2.0.7-2
- Added patches to fix default font (#212616) and printing (#449806). Yay.
* Sat Sep 27 2008 Denis Leroy <denis at poolshark.org> - 2.0.7-1
- Update to upstream 2.0.7, support for libxul-unstable
- Plugin patch cleanup
- Other patches upstreamed
* Wed Sep 24 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> - 2.0.5-3
- Rebuild against newer gecko
* Wed Jun 18 2008 Denis Leroy <denis at poolshark.org> - 2.0.5-2
- Rebuild with xulrunner 1.9
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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 galeon' 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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