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Mozilla has released updates for its Thunderbird email client, the SeaMonkey "all-in-one internet application suite" and older versions of its Firefox web browser - addressing a number of critical security vulnerabilities
"Today, the SeaMonkey project released a new version of its all-in-one internet suite. SeaMonkey 1.1.9 closes several security vulnerabilities and fixes several smaller problems found in previous versions. With that, SeaMonkey stays at the same level of security as its sibling Firefox, which is issuing updates for the same problems this week as well..."
"SillyDog701 moderator Edward informed us that SeaMonkey project has released update to SeaMonkey, version 1.1.6 following the Gecko security update released a few days ago..."
"The SeaMonkey project has updated the SeaMonkey Internet suite to patch three security vulnerabilities including one that could allow a cross site scripting attack by exploiting a jar:// protocol weakness..."
Mozilla has had a tough week. Yesterday they fixed a security problem in Thunderbird by releasing version 1.5.0.12 late yesterday. This followed on the heels of updates to Firefox, to a Firefox Google toolbar extension, and to the SeaMonkey web application suite -- all within the last six days.
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5 has been released and is currently being distributed to Firefox 2 users via the application's built-in software update system. The browser upgrade fixes several security bugs, which are detailed in the Firefox 2.0.0.5 section of the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories page.
"The SeaMonkey project has released SeaMonkey 1.1.8, an update that fixes seven security vulnerabilities, including three rated as critical, one high, one moderate and two low, including the unauthorized directory traversal due to a bug in the chrome protocol handling..." ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/releases/1.1.8/
Ubuntuzilla is an APT repository hosting the Mozilla builds of the latest official releases of Firefox, Thunderbird, and Seamonkey. This repository should also work on Linux distributions that are derivatives of Ubuntu, and probably also on any Debian derivative.
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.
