Firefox flaw fixed
p2pnet.net News:- The Mozilla Foundation has released what it describes as "an important" security update for Firefox.
"All users should upgrade to the latest version of the Firefox Preview Release," it states.
The hole would allow hackers to delete every file in the Download directory but, Mozilla points out, for that to happen, the user would have to be tricked into downloading a file or as the foundation puts it, "user interaction is required to trigger potential harm".
Gleefully, Mozilla says according to Secunia, an independent Danish security monitoring outfit, "Firefox currently has 1 open security issue, out of a total of 13 security advisories filed in 2003 and 2004. 0% of these are labeled ‘extremely critical’, 15% are labeled ‘highly critical’.
"For the same period, Secunia lists 16 open security issues out of 44 advisories for Internet Explorer 6.0, 14% of which are labeled "extremely critical", 34% are ‘highly critical’."
Click here to install the patch,
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delete – Important Security Update for Firefox Available, Mozilla Foundation
