Peaches Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 Mozilla releases Firefox & Thunderbird security updates Mozilla has released updates for the Firefox web browser and for the Thunderbird news and email client, closing a number of critical security vulnerabilities in those open source products. The latest security and stability update to the 3.6.x branch of Firefox addresses a total of 9 security issues, including five that Mozilla lists as critical, two high-level bugs and one rated as moderate. Critical Firefox bugs include a library loading bug, a location bar (aka the Awesome Bar) property problem, a buffer overflow and memory corruption error when using document.write, a dangling pointer problem and various memory safety hazards, most of which could possibly lead to the execution of remote code. The Mozilla development team have also released Firefox 3.5.14 to address the same vulnerabilities. More details about the updates can be found in the Firefox 3.5.14 and 3.6.11, and Thunderbird 3.0.9 and 3.1.5 release notes. Firefox 3.5.14 and 3.6.11, and Thunderbird 3.0.9 and 3.1.5 are available to download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Alternatively, users can upgrade to the new versions, either by waiting for the automated update notification or by manually selecting "Check for updates" from the Help Menu. http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Mozilla-releases-Firefox-Thunderbird-security-updates-1110898.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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