Mozilla Messaging has released emergency updates to both Thunderbird 3.0 & 3.1 on October 27th. From Mozilla Developer’s News, “These releases fixed a critical security issue that could potentially allow remote code execution. This issue does not affect email or newsgroups but could be triggered through browser-like features or add-ons.“ For more information and to download: Thunderbird 3.0.10 Release Notes. Thunderbird 3.1.6 Release Notes. IMPORTANT! Support for Thunderbird 3.0 is ending soon. Upgrade to Thunderbird 3.1
October 28, 2010
Mozilla released an emergency update for Firefox 3.5on October 27th. From Mozilla Developer’s News: These releases fix a critical security issue that could potentially allow remote code execution. We have received reports from several security research firms that exploit code leveraging this vulnerability has been detected in the wild. Thanks to Mozilla’s industry-leading open security process the fix has been created, tested, and released to users within 48 hours of first notification about the vulnerability. See the Release Notes for more information. Auto-updates should be occurring in the next 24-48 hours, otherwise users may get the latest update by going…
Mozilla has released an emergency update to Firefox 3.6 on October 27th. From Mozilla Developer’s News: These releases fix a critical security issue that could potentially allow remote code execution. We have received reports from several security research firms that exploit code leveraging this vulnerability has been detected in the wild. Thanks to Mozilla’s industry-leading open security process the fix has been created, tested, and released to users within 48 hours of first notification about the vulnerability. See the release notes for more details. User should soon be prompted to upgrade but can also can by going to the Help…