NEWS The latest releases of the Mozilla and Firefox browsers, along with the Thunderbird email software, fix 10 security issues, including three critical vulnerabilities, according to the Mozilla Foundation.
The three critical flaws could let an attacker run code on the victim's computer, according to information published by the Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday. The vulnerabilities are caused by the improper handling of electronic business cards, known as vCards; overly large images in the bitmap (BMP) format; and links that have host names using nonprintable characters.
The issues are fixed in the latest versions of the Mozilla Foundation's open-source software products: Mozilla 1.7.3, Firefox release candidate 1.0 and Thunderbird 0.8.
Security information provider Secunia gave the set of 10 holes a "highly critical" rating, its second-highest grade for Internet threats.
The plethora of new security issues comes a month after the Mozilla Foundation started offering money to researchers who found verifiable security problems in the browser. On Tuesday, the open-source group released its latest version of its software packages.
Robert Lemos writes for News.com
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1. Chris H
Just goes to show Microsoft aren't alone in slipping up on security.
However Microsoft could learn a lot from Mozilla about attitudes, paying researchers to find flaws seems a great idea and the sums involved must be tiny compared to overall development cost. Come on MS, give the good guys a reason to find the holes before the bad guys.