The Mozilla Foundation has issue security updates for older versions of its Firefox browser, patching versions 3 and 3.5 to correct a critical vulnerability. If you’re running the latest version of Firefox – version 3.6 – you don’t have to worry, but if, for some reason, you’re running one of these older versions, you should update them now.
The Mozilla Foundation’s security advisory states:
Mozilla developers identified and fixed several stability bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these crashes showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.
Use Firefox’s built-in updater, or download a new version of the browser here. The new versions are 3.0.18 and 3.5.8, respectively. Note that this update also applies to other Mozilla Foundation software, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.
