Mozilla Patches 6 Firefox Bugs

http://www.computerworld.com:80/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9022179&intsrc=news_ts_head

Mozilla Corp. patched its flagship Firefox browser today with fixes for six vulnerabilities, one of which was stamped "critical" by the open-source developer. This was the third time Mozilla has updated Firefox in 2007.

The updates bring the current browser to Version 2.0.0.4, and the 2005 edition to 1.5.0.12.

MFSA 2007-12, the most serious of the six, patched 30 separate memory corruption bugs in the browser layout and JavaScript engines. Even Mozilla seemed unsure of their impact. "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," the advisory read.

Mozilla warned Thunderbird and SeaMonkey that their e-mail software, which shares Firefox's layout engine, may be vulnerable to these bugs as well. The developers recommend that users do not enable JavaScript in Thunderbird or the mail portion of SeaMonkey.

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I'm all updated now :toast:

For the last six to eight months IE has thrown us off line sometimes twice a day. It was very annoying. Then all of a sudden it upgraded to something called Adobe Flash 6 and it drove us crazy. It wouldn't load DU for instance and when it did it kicked us off line. A lot of the sites where you needed a plug in or another feature to view, it kicked us off line. When my son uninstalled it, it re-installed itself.

I went to a website that talked about it, and a lot of people said they were having the same trouble with this feature that attached itself to IE>

We haven't had any trouble with FireFox except our online banking. We can't see to get a format we like.