Critical Flaws in Mozilla, Thunderbird
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The Mozilla Project has issued a warning for a series of &quot;highly critical&quot; security holes in three of its core projects, including its flagship Firefox Web browser and the Thunderbird e-mail client.
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With the release of its latest Firefox 2.0.0.5 browser, open-source software maker Mozilla claims to have fixed a number of potentially serious vulnerabilities in its flagship product.
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Mozilla is trying to weave a new web. Not sure if it matters yet.
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(Article Central) The Mozilla Foundation launched version 1.0 of its email management software Thunderbird in advance of the official release this Tuesday.
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At least three critical vulnerabilities are among those fixed by the most recent versions of Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird.
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PC Magazine - A public claim by hackers that Mozilla's Firefox browser is vulnerable to multiple code execution vulnerabilities may be a joke gone awry.
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IF, LIKE ME you get sick and tired and hassled whenever Microsoft Outlook throws a wobbly you might be inclined to try out Mozilla&#39;s Thunderbird as an email client.
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(InfoWorld) - Mozilla late yesterday patched Firefox to fix nine bugs, including the controversial critical vulnerability that involved both the open source Web browser and Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Firefox 2.0.0.5, which can be downloaded in versions for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in 42 localized editions, fixes the "firefoxurl://" vulnerability that can be exploited only on systems where Firefox is installed but IE is the primary browser. For the past week, researchers have quarreled over whether Mozilla or Microsoft was responsible for the flaw and which company should patch its software. In the security advisory, one of eight issued yesterday that outline the nine bugs, Mozilla again refrained from expressly putting the onus on Microsoft. But as before, it came close. "Other Windows applications can be called in this way and also manipulated to execute malicious code," read the advisory. "This fix only prevents Firefox and Thunderbird from accepting bad data. This patch does not fix the vulnerability in Internet Explorer." And more blunt was the single suggested work-around. "Mozilla highly recommends using Firefox to browse the Web to prevent attackers from exploiting this problem in Internet Explorer," it said. One of the researchers who last week pinned blame on Microsoft had not changed his tune as of yesterday. "This [Firefox patch] does not actually fix the flaw in Internet Explorer, but simply patches one of the myriads of attack vectors," said Thor Larholm, a Danish researcher who publicized the exploit. "I can definitely understand the initial reaction from Microsoft. Most of the emphasis in the public vulnerability reports were dealing with Firefox, the '-chrome' command-line argument, and how to properly escape the exploit code. "However, I can still automatically launch a wide range of external applications from Internet Explorer and provide them with arbitrary command-line arguments, [including] AcroRd32.exe (Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader), aim.exe (AOL Instant Messenger), Outlook.exe, msimn.exe (Outlook Express), netmeeting.exe, HelpCtr.exe (Windows Help Center), mirc.exe, Skype.exe, wab.exe (Windows Address Book), and wmplayer.exe (Windows Media Player), just to name a few," Larholm wrote. Microsoft's position last week has been that IE is not buggy and so wouldn't be patched. "Microsoft has thoroughly investigated the claim of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer and found that this is not a vulnerability in a Microsoft product," a spokesman said last Thursday. Other patches put into place by 2.0.0.5 included multiple memory corruption bugs. "With enough effort ... some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code," a cross-site scripting vulnerability and a flaw that could give attackers access to the browser's cache. Mozilla picked up the pace to push Firefox 2.0.0.5 out to users earlier than scheduled. On Monday, Mozilla developers pegged the update as a "fire drill release" because of the critical nature of the firefoxurl:// bug. At the time, July 19 was the target for 2.0.0.5's release. "But we might be able to accelerate the release," notes from a weekly status meeting read. This is the first update to Firefox since support for the older 1.5.x line was discontinued. Earlier this month, users of that version were offered an automatic update to Firefox 2.0.0.4.
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Ziff Davis - Vulnerabilities in LibTIFF and Xpdf could allow remote system compromise.
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Every time a new IE security flaw is announced, or whenever someone gets fed up with hackers manipulating their Web browser, Firefox and other Mozilla-based browsers get a bump in the marketplace.
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Equal-opportunity hacking Polish security researcher Michal Zalewski, known for his seemingly unending stream of browser vulnerability discoveries, has struck again. This time he's reported four flaws that are sure to get the attention of bug squashers in both Microsoft and Mozilla camps.â¦
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The Mozilla Foundation has fixed 10 security bugs in its open-source Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox browsers and Thunderbird e-mail reader, with the release of new versions of all three products this week. Some of the vulnerabilities could allow attackers to run malicious code on a user's PC via a malicious e-mail, a specially crafted vCard or a malformed graphic on a Web site, project leaders said.
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TechWeb - Microsoft said it is investigating &quot;claims&quot; of vulnerabilities, while Mozilla released information today on two flaws.
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InfoWorld - Mozilla has released a critical security update to Firefox, taking a third shot at patching bugs in the way the browser can be used to launch programs from Web links.
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Mozilla browser is less complete than Internet Explorer but is much more than just an anti-Microsoft statement. Is computing not making the progress it used to, or did I just read a story
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Users of the Mozilla and Firefox browsers and the Thunderbird e-mail client may be vulnerable to flaws that could allow an attacker to spy on or take over a system, according to security researchers.
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Mozilla Corp. released updated versions of Firefox Friday to patch 14 vulnerabilities, three of them critical, but it pushed out the new versions without fixing several flaws.