Posted on 07/18/2009 9:39:26 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Mountain View, California - Mozilla has released an update to Firefox that fixes a security flaw discovered in the last week.
The company has moved fast to make Firefox 3.5.1 available for Windows, Mac, and Linux users as a free download. It resolves a Just-in-Time (JIT) JavaScript compiler flaw in version 3.5 which left users at risk of memory corruption and malware infection.
Last week, "SBerry" posted proof of concept code that exploited the way Firefox 3.5 processes JavaScript code when handling FONT tags in HTML.
"In certain cases after a return from a native function, such as escape(), the Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler could get into a corrupt state. This could be exploited by an attacker," said Mozilla. The security advisory is here.
I’ve tried Opera several times over the years since I first heard about it here at FR. For me, it’s never been any improvement over FF whatsoever. And, in fact, sometimes it’s just weird.
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