Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Security Updates To Mozilla Products

Mozilla has released updates to Firefox and Seamonkey browsers and Thunderbird email client to address a bunch of vulnerabilities of which several categorized as critical.

Affected products are: - Mozilla Thunderbird earlier than 9.0 - Mozilla SeaMonkey earlier than 2.6 - Mozilla Firefox earlier than 9.0

Links to the security advisories with details about addressed security issues:
MFSA 2011-59 .jar not treated as executable in Firefox 3.6 on Mac
MFSA 2011-58 Crash scaling video element to extreme sizes
MFSA 2011-57 Crash when plugin removes itself on Mac OS X
MFSA 2011-56 Key detection without JavaScript via SVG animation
MFSA 2011-55 nsSVGValue out-of-bounds access
MFSA 2011-54 Potentially exploitable crash in the YARR regular expression library
MFSA 2011-53 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:9.0)


Fresh versions can be obtained via inbuilt updater or by downloading from the product site: Firefox Thunderbird SeaMonkey

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