[Web4lib] Firefox 3.0.1 security update!

[Bill Drew]

>From The PC Doctor's blog » Blog Archive » » Firefox 3.0.1 released

Yesterday it was the turn of Firefox 2.0 to get an update, today it's
the turn of Firefox 3.0

Firefox 3.0.1 plugs up the following vulnerabilities:

- MFSA 2008-36 Crash with malformed GIF file on Mac OS X. Where a
specially crafted GIF file caused the browser to free an uninitialized
pointer. This can crash the browser and allow arbitrary code execution
on the victim's computer.
- MFSA 2008-35 Command-line URLs launch multiple tabs when Firefox not
running. Now this one had an easy workaround*. Just always run Firefox!
- MFSA 2008-34 Remote code execution by overflowing CSS reference
counter. This vulnerability affects the CSSValue array data structure.


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