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Mozilla Patches Things Up
Published October 8th, 2006 in All Categories, Firefox, Mozilla
As it turns out, there were some flaws in Mozilla’s software after all.
The open source company today issued a series of patches for vulnerabilities exposed recently in Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey, and recommended that users patch their systems immediately.
The patches come on the heels of a scare over a "zero-day" vulnerability in Firefox that was alleged by a hacker at the ToorCon conference earlier this week. In the end, the scare was overblown — the hacker later conceded that the vulnerability only allows users to crash the browser, not control it. (See Zero-Day: Won’t Go Away.)
The new vulnerabilities are very real, experts say. Two researchers — Fernando Ribeiro and Priit Laes — separately found errors that could lead to denial of service attacks, and possibly remote code execution, in Mozilla software. Dark Reading - Desktop Security - Mozilla Patches Things Up - Security News Analysis
