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Firefox 3.0.4 fixes several security issues

November 13, 2008 by Shanmuga  
Filed under Browser Security, Vulnerabilities

Mozilla today released Firefox 3.04 which addresses many several security issues among other bug fixes and exhancements.
The update fixes the following critical issues:

MFSA 2008-55 critical Crash and remote code execution in nsFrameManager
MFSA 2008-54 Buffer overflow in http-index-format parser
MFSA 2008-53 XSS and JavaScript privilege escalation via session restore
MFSA 2008-52 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.4/1.8.1.18)

The following high vulnerabilities were also fixed:

MFSA 2008-57 -moz-binding property bypasses security checks on codebase principals
MFSA 2008-56 nsXMLHttpRequest::NotifyEventListeners() same-origin violation.

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