[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: firefox-9.0.1-1.fc15
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-17399
2011-12-23 03:10:48
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Name : firefox
Product : Fedora 15
Version : 9.0.1
Release : 1.fc15
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:
The latest version of Firefox and Thunderbird have the following changes:
* Added Type Inference, significantly improving JavaScript performance
* Added support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript
* Added support for font-stretch
* Improved support for text-overflow
* Improved standards support for HTML5, MathML, and CSS
* Fixed several stability issues
* Fixed several security issues
Notable nss changes include:
1. SSL 2.0 is disabled by default.
2. A defense against the SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 CBC chosen plaintext attack
demonstrated by Rizzo and Duong (CVE-2011-3389) is enabled by default.
Set the SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV SSL option to PR_FALSE to disable it.
3. SHA-224 is supported.
4. Added PORT_ErrorToString and PORT_ErrorToName to return the
error message and symbolic name of an NSS error code.
5. Added NSS_GetVersion to return the NSS version string.
6. Added experimental support of RSA-PSS to the softoken only
(contributed by Hanno Böck, http://rsapss.hboeck.de/).
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Dec 23 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 9.0.1-1
- Update to 9.0.1
* Wed Dec 21 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 9.0-3
- Update to 9.0
* Thu Dec 15 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 9.0-1.beta5
- Update to 9.0 Beta 5
* Tue Nov 15 2011 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> - 8.0-3
- Disabled addon check UI (#753551)
* Tue Nov 15 2011 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> - 8.0-2
- Temporary workaround for langpacks (#753551)
* Tue Nov 8 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 8.0-1
- Update to 8.0
* Mon Oct 24 2011 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> - 7.0.1-3
- reverted the desktop file name for Fedora15 & 16
* Mon Oct 24 2011 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> - 7.0.1-2
- renamed mozilla-firefox.desktop to firefox.desktop (#736558)
- nspluginwrapper is not run in plugin-container (#747981)
* Fri Sep 30 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 7.0.1-1
- Update to 7.0.1
* Tue Sep 27 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 7.0
- Update to 7.0
* Tue Sep 6 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 6.0.2-1
- Update to 6.0.2
* Tue Aug 16 2011 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> - 6.0-1
- Update to 6.0
* Fri Jun 24 2011 Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> - 5.0-2
- Fix an issue with a stray glyph in the window title
* Tue Jun 21 2011 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> - 5.0-1
- Update to 5.0
* Tue May 10 2011 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> - 4.0.1-2
- Fixed rhbz#676183 - "firefox -g" is broken
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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
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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