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Mozilla is working on patching its Firefox browser after a hacker posted details of a flaw that could let criminals run unauthorized software on a victim's machine.
In an interesting twist on browser-based security issues, security researchers said they have found a flaw in which Microsoft's Internet Explorer can cause Mozilla's Firefox to execute remote malicious code. Security firm Secunia released an advisory Tuesday, ranking the flaw as highly critical. The vulnerability is confirmed on Firefox 2.0.0.4 on a fully-patched version of Windows XP SP2.
Not everything went to plan during the Firefox 3 launch - first the servers just could not cope with the traffic, leaving potential downloaders fuming, and then a security firm announced that it had discovered a flaw that left the browser open to attack.
"Mozilla ponies up a patch for yet another critical flaw in Firefox, the latest embarrassment in a lengthening list this month for the open-source browser."
As announced, Mozilla has released the first update for Firefox 3.5, prompted by the disclosure of a critical security flaw related to TraceMonkey, the new JavaScript optimizer, earlier this week.
Mozilla is updating its Firefox 3.x browser to version 3.0.12 for five critical security vulnerabilities. All of the issues have already been addressed in the latest Firefox 3.5.1 update which came out last week.
Ensuring browsing safety is one of the major concerns of equally users and browser developers these days. And it’s understandable because let’s face it - a lot of people practically live online. We buy and sell stuff online, we do online banking, we socialize online, and we even get online degrees. With all that going on it’s a must to protect yourself.
A noted security researcher disclosed four new zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft and Mozilla's browsers, including a critical flaw in Internet Explorer (IE) and a major bug in Firefox.