[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: galeon-2.0.7-20.fc12

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-1727
2010-02-19 23:56:36
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Name        : galeon
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 2.0.7
Release     : 20.fc12
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 new upstream Firefox version 3.5.8, fixing multiple security issues
detailed in the upstream advisories:    http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-
vulnerabilities/firefox35.html#firefox3.5.8    Update also includes all packages
depending on gecko-libs rebuilt against new version of Firefox / XULRunner.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Feb 18 2010 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 2.0.7-20
- Rebuild against newer gecko
* Wed Dec 16 2009 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 2.0.7-19
- Rebuild against newer gecko
* Thu Nov  5 2009 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 2.0.7-18
- Rebuild against newer gecko
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #566047 - CVE-2010-0159 Mozilla crashes with evidence of memory corruption (MFSA 2010-01)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566047
  [ 2 ] Bug #566049 - CVE-2010-0160 Mozilla implementation of Web Workers can lead to crash with evidence of memory corruption (MFSA 2010-02)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566049
  [ 3 ] Bug #566050 - CVE-2009-1571 Mozilla incorrectly frees used memory (MFSA 2010-03)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566050
  [ 4 ] Bug #566051 - CVE-2009-3988 Mozilla violation of same-origin policy due to properties set on objects passed to showModalDialog (MFSA 2010-04)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566051
  [ 5 ] Bug #566052 - CVE-2010-0162 Mozilla bypass of same-origin policy due to improper SVG document processing (MFSA 2010-05)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566052
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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
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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