nsane.forums Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Mozilla released Firefox 16.0.1 on Thursday in order to fix a publicly disclosed vulnerability and three other security flaws identified after the release of Firefox 16. Mozilla pulled down Firefox 16 from its website on Wednesday, one day after its release, because of a vulnerability that potentially allowed malicious Web pages to read the URLs of other websites accessed by visiting users. Such behavior should normally be prohibited by the browser's security mechanisms. The issue was publicly disclosed by security researcher Gareth Heyes on Wednesday. Heyes published proof-of-concept code that, when loaded from an arbitrary Web page, could determine the user name of a user logged into Twitter. Mozilla determined that the issue found by Heyes only affects Firefox 16.0 and addressed it in Firefox 16.0.1. However, the new version of Firefox also fixes a separate vulnerability discovered by a Mozilla security researcher that can result in a similar behavior. In Firefox 15 and earlier versions this second security issue can also potentially lead to arbitrary code execution. In addition, Firefox 16.0.1 fixes two memory corruption bugs in the browser engine that can result in crashes and can potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code. One of these bugs only affects the Android version of Firefox when running inside custom Android firmware like CyanogenMod. Thunderbird 16.0.1 and SeaMonkey 2.13.1 were also released on Thursday in order to address the same vulnerabilities that were patched in the desktop version of Firefox. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suguru Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Why have I great feeling that mozilla sucks more and more... They just throw numbers at their users... Who needs firefox 16 or even 4278424? For me, program NOT being updated so frequently means that it's good, because majority of bugs are fixed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oZ. Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Why have I great feeling that mozilla sucks more and more... They just throw numbers at their users... Who needs firefox 16 or even 4278424? For me, program NOT being updated so frequently means that it's good, because majority of bugs are fixed... it updates every 4 - 6 months before the huge numbering. firefox updates every MONTH. by next month from now = firefox 17 Learn to observe before you cry igorantrant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.