Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 Firefox 3.0.7 has been released today and this version fixes several issues found in Firefox 3.0.6.Fixed several security issues:
-URL spoofing with invisible control characters
-Upgrade PNG library to fix memory safety hazards
-XML data theft via RDFXMLDataSource and cross-domain redirect
-Mozilla Firefox XUL Linked Clones Double Free Vulnerability
-Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.7)
Fixed ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009 The Partial GET Request (HTTP 206 Status Code) of a WAV file results in a Denial of Service of the application.Last HTTP packet from Firefox before the DoS is listed below in RAW format:GET /fpaudio/footprints_waves.wav HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
User-Agent: NSPlayer/11.0.6001.7001 WMFSDK/11.0
UA-CPU: x86
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Range: bytes=34848-
Unless-Modified-Since: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:44:57 GMT
If-Range: "4f0018-440f2-434d403204440"
Host: ...
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 Firefox 3.0.6 fixes several issues found in Firefox 3.0.5:Fixed several security issues.
Fixed several stability issues.
In previous versions of Firefox, some users experienced a problem where parts of ...
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009 Mozilla Labs, the research arm of Mozilla Corp., wants 1% of Firefox users to allow it to watch how they use the browser -- and the Web in general."We need to know how people are using our products and using the Web," said Aza Raskin, the head of user ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Although the two most-recent builds of Firefox 2.0, labeled 2.0.0.19 and 2.0.0.20, have omitted the defense, earlier editions of the browser were still able to query Google for a list of sites suspected of hosting identity theft scams. But Google is now shutting down the blacklist, said Mike Beltzner , ...
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