US-CERT Current Activity
Mozilla Releases Firefox Updates
Original release date: February 4, 2009 at 8:57 am
Last revised: February 4, 2009 at 8:57 am
Mozilla has released Firefox 3.0.6 to address multiple
vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an
attacker to execute arbitrary code, obtain sensitive information, or
conduct cross-site scripting attacks. As described in the Mozilla
Foundation Security Advisories, some of these vulnerabilities may also
affect Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.
US-CERT encourages users to do the following to help mitigate the
risks:
* Review the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory.
* Update to Firefox 3.0.6.
Relevant Url(s):
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefox3.0.6
[I use Firefox, and like it, once you switch, you will never go back to Explorer, it is faster, cleaner and has fewer problems.
granny]
I absolutely love Firefox. I will have to get the system admin to install it on my laptop since I don’t have admin rights on it. It’s a work computer.