Categories: Anti-malware

Unsanitary Firefox gets fix for critical HTML-handling flaw

Versions 56 through 58 need patching, pronto

 

By Richard Chirgwin 30 Jan 2018
 
Mozilla’s cleaned up its act so you can clean up your Firefox browser
 

Mozilla has patched a nasty bug in Firefox, affecting releases in the version 56, 57 and 58 and their point updates.

 

The CVSS-8.8-rated flaw means that if an attacker can get a user to open a malicious document or link, remote code execution becomes a possibility.

 

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