[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: xulrunner-1.9.0.5-1.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-11598
2008-12-21 00:44:48
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Name        : xulrunner
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 1.9.0.5
Release     : 1.fc9
URL         : http://developer.mozilla.org/En/XULRunner
Summary     : XUL Runtime for Gecko Applications
Description :
XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Gecko applications.

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Update Information:

Update to the new upstream Firefox 3.0.5 / XULRunner 1.9.0.5 fixing multiple
security issues:  http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-
vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefox3.0.5    This update also contains new
builds of all applications depending on Gecko libraries, built against  thenew
version.    Note: after the updated packages are installed, Firefox must be
restarted for the update to take effect.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Dec 16 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 1.9.0.5-1
- Update to 1.9.0.5
* Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 1.9.0.4-1
- Update to 1.9.0.4
* Tue Sep 23 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 1.9.0.2-1
- Update to 1.9.0.2
* Wed Jul 16 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 1.9.0.1-1
- Update to 1.9.0.1
* Mon Jun 30 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> 1.9-1.1
- handle sparc arches
* Tue Jun 17 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 1.9-1
- Update to 1.9 final
* Thu May 29 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 1.9-0.63
- Simplify PS/PDF operators
* Thu May 22 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 1.9-0.62
- Upstream patch to fsync() less
* Thu May  8 2008 Colin Walters <walters at redhat.com> 1.9-0.61
- Ensure we enable startup notification; add BR and modify config
  (bug #445543)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #476267 - CVE-2008-5501 Layout engine crash - Firefox 3 only
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476267
  [ 2 ] Bug #476287 - CVE-2008-5512 Firefox JavaScript privilege escalation
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476287
  [ 3 ] Bug #476278 - CVE-2008-5506 Firefox XMLHttpRequest 302 response disclosure
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476278
  [ 4 ] Bug #476283 - CVE-2008-5510 Firefox null characters ignored by CSS parser
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476283
  [ 5 ] Bug #476289 - CVE-2008-5513 Firefox XSS vulnerabilities in SessionStore
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476289
  [ 6 ] Bug #476280 - CVE-2008-5507 Firefox Cross-domain data theft via script redirect error message
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476280
  [ 7 ] Bug #476266 - CVE-2008-5500 Layout engine crashes - Firefox 2 and 3
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476266
  [ 8 ] Bug #476285 - CVE-2008-5511 Firefox XSS via XBL bindings to unloaded document
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476285
  [ 9 ] Bug #476274 - CVE-2008-5505 Firefox 3 User tracking via XUL persist attribute
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476274
  [ 10 ] Bug #476269 - CVE-2008-5502 JavaScript engine crash - Firefox 3 only
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476269
  [ 11 ] Bug #476281 - CVE-2008-5508 Firefox errors parsing URLs with control characters
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476281
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update xulrunner' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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