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Firefox Issues Security Update - Targets 12 Security Vulnerabilities
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Posted by Donster on: 2009-04-22 16:28:14 296
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By Amy Vernon @ Hot Hardware
Mozilla released Firefox 3.0.9 yesterday, fixing more than nine security flaws - some of which were termed critical, causing crashes in Firefox 3 and, occasionally, in Firefox 2. Some of the crashes corrupted memory.
One of the issues dealt with JavaScript running in mail programs on Firefox and Thunderbird (which shares the Firefox browser engine). According to the company's website:
"Mozilla developers identified and fixed several stability bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these crashes showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.
Thunderbird shares the browser engine with Firefox and could be vulnerable if JavaScript were to be enabled in mail. This is not the default setting and we strongly discourage users from running JavaScript in mail. Without further investigation we cannot rule out the possibility that for some of these an attacker might be able to prepare memory for exploitation through some means other than JavaScript such as large images."
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