[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: blam-1.8.5-4.fc9.1

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-11598
2008-12-21 00:44:48
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Name        : blam
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 1.8.5
Release     : 4.fc9.1
URL         : http://www.cmartin.tk/blam.html
Summary     : An RSS/RDF feed reader
Description :
Blam is a tool that helps you keep track of the growing
number of news feeds distributed as RSS. Blam lets you
subscribe to any number of feeds and provides an easy to
use and clean interface to stay up to date

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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:

* Wed Dec 17 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> - 1.8.5-4.1
- Rebuild against newer gecko
* Tue Nov 18 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
- Rebuild against newer gtk-sharp2 (bug 468055)
* Wed Nov 12 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> - 1.8.5-3
- Rebuild against newer gecko
* Wed Sep 24 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> - 1.8.5-2
- Rebuild against newer gecko
* Mon Jul 21 2008 Alex Lancaster <alexlan[AT]fedoraproject org> - 1.8.5-1
- Update to upstream (1.8.5), fixes FTBS (#434382)
- Set gecko version to new xulrunner: 1.9.0.5
- BR: gecko-devel-unstable
- Drop a number of patches which no longer apply
- Add new icons to file list.
* Tue Feb 19 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.3-14
- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3
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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 blam' 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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