Firefox updates, blitzes trio of critical bugs
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It's raining security updates Mozilla pushed out a new update of Firefox on Thursday that fixes ten security vulnerabilities, three of which are deemed critical.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.
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Six vulnerabilities, one critical, have been patched in the latest round of Firefox patches issued Wednesday. For those keeping score at home, total browser patch counts so far in 2007 stand at Firefox 22, Internet Explorer 8.
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Ten security flaws found in Firefox browser, Thunderbird e-mail client.
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Mozilla Corp. 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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Researchers have found a trio of flaws in Internet Explorer--making almost 20 in total.
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The latest beta release from Firefox fixes more than 900 hundred bugs and 300 memory leaks, and improves performance overall. It shows the open-source browser is on track to be one of the biggest releases of the new year.
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Blog: Updates address some critical vulnerabilities in the popular browser.
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Mozilla Corp. updated the preview of Firefox 3.0 to alpha 8 Thursday, unveiling for the first time to users several security features it&#39;s talked up for months.
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Researchers are publishing security vulnerabilities this week that could offer attackers new ways to get into the enterprise. Mozilla updated its Firefox Web browser on Tuesday to thwart attacks that target a flaw in Apple&#39;s QuickTime player. Meanwhile, security researchers detailed new vulnerabilities in Windows and Windows Media player.
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InfoWorld - 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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Unload update stars in weekend patch release Firefox users need to update their browser software following the discovery of multiple vulnerabilities.â¦
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Mozilla issued 10 patches on Friday for its Firefox browser, including three for critical vulnerabilities. The latest version of Firefox is now 2.0.0.12.One of the critical vulnerabilities, MFSA 2008-06, is a problem in the way the browser handles images on certain Web pages.It&#39;s possible to exploit the flaw to steal a person&#39;s Web browsing history, forward that information and then crash the browser. It may also be possible to run arbitrary code on a machine, Mozilla said.A second critical vulnerability can enable a privilege escalation attack or remote code execution.The last critical problem involves a memory corruption flaw that &quot;we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code,&quot; Mozilla said.Also notable is a fix for a problem with Mozilla&#39;s &quot;chrome&quot; protocol, which is the term Mozilla uses for its user interface. The problem involves some of Firefox&#39;s add-ons, or applications that users can download which extend browser functionality.The vulnerability would let an attacker determine what applications are installed on a person&#39;s PC, which could give clues to how the machine could be compromised, Mozilla said. However, a victim would have to be lured to a special malicious Web page designed to take advantage of the flaw.&#160;
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Updates to both old and new versions of Firefox and Thunderbird seek to address security and stability issues.
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(InfoWorld) - MozillaÂ has released an update to its Firefox browser, fixing a number of security flaws in the product. The Firefox 2.0.0.2 release includes a fix for a bug disclosed by security researcher Michal Zalewsky last week. That flaw can be exploited by attackers to manipulate cookie information in the Firefox browser, making it probably the most important fix in the update, according to Window Snyder, Mozilla's head of security strategy. "The potential to compromise a user's account is almost as serious as compromising their machine," she said Friday via instant message. "Since the details of how to exploit the vulnerability are publicly available, the risk to users is increased." The updates also include a fix for a previously undisclosed memory corruption flaw in the browser that could be exploited to run unauthorized software on a Firefox user's computer. This flaw could also affect Thunderbird users who have configured their mail client to run JavaScript automatically, something that Mozilla does not recommend. Thunderbird is Mozilla's free e-mail client. The patches were released on Friday afternoon and should soon be delivered via Firefox's automatic software update mechanism, Snyder said. Mozilla has patched a total of seven Firefox bugs and is also addressing two bugs in Thunderbird. The latest browser release also includes enhancements to make it run better with Windows Vista as well as support for the Afrikaans, Belarusian, Georgian, and Kurdish languages.
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The Mozilla Foundation&#39;s Firefox stand-alone browser, which has been riding a wave of defectors from the security-plagued Internet Explorer, has a bug of its own, the open-source group recently announced.
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Update to "critical" Internet Explorer patch repairs a serious security flaw introduced by the original version.