Technology Blog of Vikas SN

Last month, a very critical hole was discovered in the Firefox source code which affected both Firefox 3 and Firefox 2.x.x and the point of concern for all the users was that it could allow a hacker to execute commands remotely on a machine. Therefore to fix this, Mozilla has released a minor update to Firefox 3 i.e. Firefox 3.0.1. Firefox 3.0.1 fixes three critical security vulnerabilities, improves stability and resolves a handful of other small bugs. The Security improvements in Firefox 3 means that it's no longer vulnerable to some of the Firefox 2 variants of the command-line multiple tab exploit but it can still be compromised by combining the attack with a script injection flaw. The non-security fixes include an issue where the phishing and malware database did not update on first launch and a problem that could cause Firefox to not save the security certificate exceptions list properly. To know more on the details of the updates/fixes it has provided, you can check the Firefox 3.0.1 Release Notes and the new version can be downloaded from the Mozilla website. Persons already using Firefox 3 can get it via Automatic updates tab built into the browser (Go to Help -> Check for updates in the topmost bar, that should do the job).