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09/25/2008, 11:15am, EDT
Thursday, September 25th
Mozilla, Apple fix potential graphics exploit
Crash errors in Mozilla's Firefox browser have been fixed with help from Apple, the organization says. Bugs in earlier versions of Firefox 3 were said to have been crashing the software, sometimes generating memory corruption at the same time; Mozilla comments that while no threats have emerged, the potential existed for launching arbitrary code, such as malware. Two of these bugs -- found in the image rendering code -- were discovered by Drew Yao of Apple Product Security.
Mozilla notes that several related bugs were discovered in other components of the browser, including the JavaScript and layout engines. A portion of these also affected software other than Firefox 3, including Firefox 2, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey; users who update to the latest versions of the programs, such as Firefox 3.0.2, should however be in the clear.
Filed under: security, Apple
Other story tags: Firefox, browsers, mozilla, Thunderbird
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Man Bites Dog
Apple discover a security problem in Mozilla code? Just watch as this story fails to be significant news in any way.