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Mozilla Plans Fix For Critical Firefox Vulnerability In Next Release

Posted by Soulskill on from the sooner-than-later dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "A month after an advisory was published detailing a new vulnerability in Firefox, Mozilla said it has received exploit code for the flaw and is planning to patch the weakness on March 30 in the next release of Firefox. Mozilla officials said Thursday that the vulnerability, which was disclosed February 18 by Secunia, is a critical flaw that could result in remote code execution on a vulnerable machine. The vulnerability is in version 3.6 of Firefox."

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  1. Re:Planning? It's not enough! by maxume · · Score: 5, Informative

    Are you being intentionally ridiculous?

    The fix is in the latest beta release already, that binary is slated to be the release candidate, and if testing goes well, it will be the release.

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