Mozilla Plugs Critical Firefox Security Holes with Update
Mozilla Plugs Critical Firefox Security Holes with Update
Posted 07/18/2008 at 11:34am
| by Pulkit Chandna
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After Apple had released a patch to negate the IE/Safari carpet bombing vulnerability last month, Windows security blogger Billy Rios discovered a similar exploit, albeit using Firefox and Safari. Mozilla has made available an update for both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 that negates this threat.
The earlier version of the open source browser was the first to be updated as the crucial Firefox 2.0.0.16 security update became available on Tuesday (15th July) followed by the 3.0.1 patch for Firefox 3 the next day. In addition to tackling the carpet bombing threat, the updates have also fixed a vulnerability related to the browser’s CSSValue array data, and a minor Mac-only bug.
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sdcat
July 18, 2008 at 1:57pm
Andy I am with opulent_rigs here. My firefox starts fine, not slow. You probably want to do a check up to your rig.
AndyYankee17
July 18, 2008 at 4:55pm
now it starts fine I think the other times I was starting it up it was bugging out because another user had it open
opulent_rigs
July 18, 2008 at 1:04pm
My FF3 and FF2 - on another machine, of course - are doing fine.
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