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Firefox Patched by Mozilla

The Firefox browser was recently updated by Mozilla Corp. in order to fix 7 errors, including 4 called by the open-source developer as "Critical." Mozilla said in detailed descriptions of each fixed flaw that none of the four critical vulnerabilities patched in Firefox 1.5.0.7 is currently being exploited. Mozilla also said in several of the descriptions that it was not sure whether the specific vulnerabilities could be exploited, but had issued patches just in case.

Mozilla stated in one patch`s explanation: "We presume that at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code with enough effort". Two of the remaining 3 patches were pegged by Mozilla as "Moderate," while the third was tagged as "Important". Danish vulnerability tracker Secunia, on the other hand, gave the update a collective "Highly critical" rating, its second-most-dire ranking.

The independent Camino and SeaMonkey projects updated their applications too. The former, a native Mac OS X browser, moved up to version 1.0.3 by fixing some of the critical security and stability problems, and integrated the patches to the most recent Gecko rendering engine. SeaMonkey, which is a follow-on to the discontinued Mozilla browsing suite, migrated to version 1.0.5.