[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: galeon-2.0.7-8.fc10

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-3100
2009-03-28 00:57:36
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Name        : galeon
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 2.0.7
Release     : 8.fc10
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:

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> - 2.0.7-8
- Rebuild against newer gecko
* Fri Mar  6 2009 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 2.0.7-7
- Rebuild against newer gecko
* Sun Feb 15 2009 Denis Leroy <denis at poolshark.org> - 2.0.7-6
- Added upstream patch to use Gnome Print
* 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
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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
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