Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Mozilla Releases Updates

Mozilla has released a new version of Firefox web browser. Version 3.0.2 fixes bunch of issues including following five vulnerabilities:
-MFSA 2008-44 resource: traversal vulnerabilities
-MFSA 2008-43 BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution
-MFSA 2008-42 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17)
-MFSA 2008-41 Privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution
-MFSA 2008-40 Forced mouse drag

Of these -42 and -41 are categorized as critical, -44 and -43 are moderate and -40 low.

Version 2.0.0.17 fixes above mentioned and couple of other security issues for Firefox 2 series users.

Mozilla released also updated version of SeaMonkey (1.1.12). Part of listed five security issues affects Thunderbird too. 2.0.0.17 version should fix these but it's not yet available for downloading at the moment of writing this.


More information on the updates:
Firefox 3.0.2 Release Notes
Firefox 2.0.0.17 Release Notes
SeaMonkey 1.1.12 Release Notes

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