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February 8, 2008

Firefox 2.0.0.12 Released

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Late Monday, Mozilla.org released version 2.0.0.12 of its Firefox web browser.

The new version, a 17 megabyte download, improves application stability and addresses the following security issues:
-MFSA 2008-11 Web forgery overwrite with div overlay.
-MFSA 2008-10 URL token stealing via stylesheet redirect.
-MFSA 2008-09 Mishandling of locally-saved plain text files.
-MFSA 2008-08 File action dialog tampering.
-MFSA 2008-06 Web browsing history and forward navigation stealing.
-MFSA 2008-05 Directory traversal via chrome: URI.
-MFSA 2008-04 Stored password corruption.
-MFSA 2008-03 Privilege escalation, XSS, Remote Code Execution.
-MFSA 2008-02 Multiple file input focus stealing vulnerabilities.
-MFSA 2008-01 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.12).

Firefox requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later to run and is available for free.

If you've tried the new version and seen either positive or negative changes, let us know in the forums.

Posted by chrisbarylick at February 8, 2008 8:00 AM
Category: Software
Tags: 10.2, 2.0.0.12, Apple, bug, code, corruption, crash, execution, Firefox, fix, Mac, Mozilla.org, OS X, password, remote, stored, update
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