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Mozilla pushes out Firefox 2.0.0.6 security update

Firefox 2.0.0.6Just 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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