Firefox 3.0.4 security makeover: 11 vulnerabilities, 4 critical
Well, to be honest, i am an undoubted Firefox fan and was very surprised to discover this statement on ZDNET.
You can go and download a new installation of Firefox 3.0.4, because these 11 vulnerabilities, 4 of which highly critical are already fixed. Otherwise you might be exposed to code injection, information stealing or (denial-of-service) attacks.
The four critical vulnerabilities are the following:
MFSA 2008-55 Crash and remote code execution in nsFrameManager.
MFSA 2008-54 Buffer overflow in http-index-format parser.
MFSA 2008-53 XSS and JavaScript privilege escalation via session restore.
MFSA 2008-52 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption.
There are also other fixes included in the new version of Firefox 3.0.4, which are:
MFSA 2008-58 Parsing error in E4X default namespace
MFSA 2008-57 -moz-binding property bypasses security checks on codebase principals
MFSA 2008-56 nsXMLHttpRequest::NotifyEventListeners() same-origin violation
MFSA 2008-51 file: URIs inherit chrome privileges when opened from chrome
MFSA 2008-47 Information stealing via local shortcut files
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