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Posted 9/21/2005 3:14 AM


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Full story:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39218818,00.htm

Mozilla's reply:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39219186,00.htm

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Posted 9/21/2005 6:28 AM


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Well Richie at least Mozilla keeps fixing vulnerabilities almost as fast as they are found.

Firefox 1.0.7 Released

Fix for a potential buffer overflow vulnerability when loading a hostname with soft-hyphens
Fix to prevent URLs passed from external programs from being parsed by the shell (Linux only)
Fix to prevent a crash when loading a Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) script that uses an "eval" statement
Fix to restore InstallTrigger.getVersion() for Extension authors
Other stability and security fixes

Download the version here.

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Posted 9/21/2005 6:41 AM


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Wow,Mozilla certainly don't hang about,thanks Russ

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