A critical vulnerability, a GIF processing hole, was discovered by Internet Security Systems (ISS) and the flaw if exploited would make Firefox users running earlier versions of the browser vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks. In February the Mozilla Foundation fixed 17 security vulnerabilities with the release of Firefox 1.0.1. Mozilla though is not planning to have a regular release of patches. Symantec in this week's Internet Threat Report allegedly said that during the second half of last year, 21 vulnerabilities affected Mozilla browsers and 13 flaws affected Internet Explorer. However, only seven of the flaws in Firefox were considered "highly severe," compared with nine in Internet Explorer.
I immediately downloaded and installed the new version of firefox and i am posting this article through it. One strange thing is the default bookmark "Firefox Start Page" in "Firefox and Mozilla Links" folder which was hosted on google site is no longer available.
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