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

Mozilla Warns of Fake Thunderbird Downloads Delivering Ransomware 

Mozilla issued a warning this week over malicious websites offering Thunderbird downloads after a ransomware group was caught using this technique to deliver malware. Cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs reported last week that a website where the Snatch ransomware group names victims had been leaking data, including visitor IPs and information on internal operations. According to […]

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, […]