[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: firefox-3.0.8-1.fc10

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-3100
2009-03-28 00:57:36
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Name        : firefox
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 3.0.8
Release     : 1.fc10
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:

A memory corruption flaw was discovered in the way Firefox handles XML files
containing an XSLT transform. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash
Firefox or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox.
(CVE-2009-1169)    A flaw was discovered in the way Firefox handles certain XUL
garbage collection events. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash
Firefox or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox.
(CVE-2009-1044)
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Mar 27 2009 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> - 3.0.8-1
- Update to 3.0.8
* Wed Mar  4 2009 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 3.0.7-1
- Update to 3.0.7
* Thu Feb 26 2009 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 3.0.6-2
- Fixed spelling mistake in firefox.sh.in
* 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
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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/.

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