Mozilla Releases Firefox 1.0.7

By Legit Staff

Mozilla released Firefox 1.0.7 today, those of you who are fans will definitely want to check it out.
After Symantec’s warning regarding Firefox vulnerabilities, I’m wondering if Mozilla’s popularity has finally caught up with it.

This version includes several security and stability fixes, including a fix for a reported buffer overflow vulnerability and a fix for a Linux shell command vulnerability.

Specific changes in Firefox 1.0.7

  • Fix for a potential buffer overflow vulnerability when loading a hostname with all 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

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