Fresh holes found in Mozilla browsers and email

Posted on 1 Mar 2005 at 16:47

A number of security vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla, Firefox 1.0 and Thunderbird.

They are described as moderately critical, as one would need to be physically present at computer to expoloit them. Successfully doing do would give the attacker escalated privileges on the target machine.

The vulnerabilities could also be used to launch spoofing attacks, disclose and manipulate sensitive information, and potentially compromise a user's system.

Nine vulnerabilities have been discovered, listed in detail at secunia.com/advisories/14407.

Firefox users should update to version 1.0.1 at www.mozilla.org/firefox. Fixes for Mozilla and Thunderbird will be incorporated into imminent updates, versions 1.7.6 and 1.0.1 respectively.

Author: Matt Whipp

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