Mozilla pushes out Firefox 2.0.0.6 security update

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Mozilla pushes out Firefox 2.0.0.6 security update

by Brad Linder Jul 31st 2007

Just two weeks after Mozilla released Firefox 2.0.0.5, the corporation has pushed out another critical security update. Firefox 2.0.0.6 fixes two vulnerabilities.

The problem is that Firefox "did not percent-encode spaces and double-quotes in URIs handed off to external programs." Essentially that means that hackers could create web sites that would launch arbitrary code on your computers when visited with the Firefox browser.

Odds are you'll get the update through Firefox's auto-update feature. But if your browser hasn't prompted you to download Firefox 2.0.0.6 yet, you can grab it from the Firefox homepage.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

kingkool68 said 12:13PM on 7-31-2007

I just restarted my browser a few minutes ago and was wondering why they were pushing out updates soo fast. Thanks for the info.

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