Cybersecurity

Mozilla Patches Firefox Vulnerability Allowing Remote Code Execution, Sandbox Escape

Mozilla on Tuesday announced security updates for both Firefox and Thunderbird, to address 20 vulnerabilities, including several memory safety issues. Firefox 121 was released with patches for 18 vulnerabilities, five of which have a ‘high’ severity rating. At the top of the list is CVE-2023-6856, a heap buffer overflow bug in WebGL, the JavaScript API […]

Cybersecurity

Firefox, Chrome Updates Patch High-Severity Vulnerabilities

Mozilla and Google this week announced software updates for Firefox and Chrome that address multiple high-severity vulnerabilities, including memory safety bugs. On Tuesday, Mozilla released Firefox 119 with patches for 11 vulnerabilities, including three high-severity issues. The first of the flaws, CVE-2023-5721, is an insufficient activation-delay bug that could result in the user unintentionally activating […]

Cybersecurity

Firefox 118 Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities

Mozilla on Tuesday announced security updates for both Firefox and Thunderbird, addressing a total of nine vulnerabilities in its products, including high-severity flaws. Firefox 118 was released to the stable channel with patches for all nine vulnerabilities – all are  memory issues, most of which could lead to exploitable crashes. Tracked as CVE-2023-5168 and CVE-2023-5169, […]