Friday, August 06, 2004

Mozilla, Opera Plug Security Holes

Mozilla, Opera Plug Security Holes:
"The Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software ASA have released updates to their Web browsers to fix a series of security vulnerabilities.

Mozilla on Wednesday posted new versions of its Firefox browser, Thunderbird e-mail client and Mozilla suite that provide fixes to three issues. They include a newly reported critical vulnerability affecting multiple vendors' software that uses the library for the Portable Networks Graphic (PNG) image format. "

The other two issues, as previously reported, were related to the handling of security certificates in the Mozilla browsers that, among other things, could allow an attacker to lull users into a false sense of security on a site. …full story

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1632752,00.asp

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