Firefox 2.0.0.16 fixes two security vulnerabilities

Published: 2008-07-16
Last Updated: 2008-07-16 10:02:33 UTC
by Maarten Van Horenbeeck (Version: 1)
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The Mozilla Foundation has just released Firefox 2.0.0.16 which fixes two critical security vulnerabilities:

MFSA 2008-35 (CVE-2008-2933) Command-line URLs launch multiple tabs when Firefox not running
MFSA 2008-34 (CVE-2008-2785) Remote code execution by overflowing CSS reference counter

It should be noted that the second vulnerability would also affect users that run Thunderbird with Javascript enabled for e-mail reading. Needless to say this is a no-no. We recommend users to upgrade their Firefox installation. Firefox 2.x will still be supported only until mid-December, so investigating and planning an upgrade path to Firefox 3 is advised.

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