The open source Mozilla Foundation has patched its
Firefox 1.5 browser to fix eight potential security
vulnerabilities.
One of the flaws patched against is rated as critical and four
others are deemed to be of “moderate risk”, said Mozilla. Three
other flaws are described as “low risk”.
The more serious flaws could allow a remote attacker to take
over a user’s machine when the Firefox update is not installed,
said Mozilla.
One of the problems patched against includes a flaw discovered
at the end of last year, which caused the browser to crash when
pointed at a specially crafted web page with an extremely long
title.
This was described by security experts as a potential buffer
overflow vulnerability, which could be used to run arbitrary code
on a user’s machine.
With the patch, Mozilla has updated Firefox to version 1.5.0.1.
The patch also delivers improved stability and support when Firefox
is run on the Mac OS X platform.
