Friday July 17, 2009

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1 released, fixes critical Javascript vulnerability in Firefox 3.5

ftp.mozilla.org :

The Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1 release (direct download link provided for the more commonly-used Win32 EN-US build) fixes a critical security vulnerability in the Tracemonkey Javascript engine as described on the Mozilla blog :

A bug discovered last week in Firefox 3.5's Just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler was disclosed publicly yesterday [13 Jul 2009]. It is a critical vulnerability that can be used to execute malicious code ... Mozilla developers are working on a fix for this issue and a Firefox security update will be sent out as soon as the fix is completed and tested.

Well, that security update is here. Download and install it as soon as you can.

(2009-07-17 09:29:02 SGT) [Tech] Permalink

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