Mozilla has released a security update to Firefox 2, making it the second update this month. Firefox 2.0.0.6 is available through the built-in auto-update feature or as a standalone download. One “critical” and one “moderate” vulnerabilities are patched in this update. The critical update is “Unescaped URIs passed to external programs” which is similar to [...] Read more »
Firefox 2.0.0.5 Released
Mozilla has released Firefox 2.0.0.5 which patches eight security vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update patched eight security vulnerabilities. The previously reported vulnerability where IE would pass a malformed URL which Firefox would then accept is one of the eight patched vulnerabilities. Two other vulnerabilities were rated as “critical” by the Firefox team. A critical rating [...] Read more »
Vulnerability Pits Firefox Against IE
A new zero-day vulnerability exists when both Firefox 2.x and Internet Explorer are installed on the same machine. The exploit is most likely to be available on PCs with Firefox 2.0.0.2 installed due to changes made for Microsoft Vista compatibility. The general consensus of the comments are that both applications contribute the the exploit. Firefox [...] Read more »
Firefox 2.0.0.4 – Security Update
Firefox has released an update with six vulnerability fixes for Firefox 2 which ups the version number to 2.0.0.4 One of the fixes is listed as “critical”. There’s also numerous other updates and bug fixes. Enhancements include “enchancements and fixes for Windows Vista” and support for two new languages – Afrikaans (af) and Belarusian (be). [...] Read more »