FireFox and SeaMonkey Flaw Fixed

The Mozilla Foundation has published a fix for a “critical” JavaScript vulnerability in the Firefox browser and the SeaMonkey. This week the fix was released which targets Firefox versions 2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0.10, as well as SeaMonkey versions 1.1.1 and 1.0.8. An earlier fix for a JavaScript problem allowed scripts from Web content to execute arbitrary code, the Mozilla Foundation said.      

The vulnerability allowed uniform resource identifiers, or URIs, in image tags to be executed even if JavaScript was disabled
in the program preferences, Mozilla said.

Disabling JavaScript does not protect against the flaw, so the foundation recommended that users upgrade the applications to new versions. Mozilla’s Thunderbird e-mail client was not affected by the vulnerability

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Flash and Firefox to unite

According to an article on macworld.com. Adobe will contribute source code to the Mozilla Foundation as the two organizations aim to establish a standard scripting language that developers can use to create interactive applications for Adobe’s Flash Player and Mozilla’s Firefox browser.

The plan calls for Adobe to hand over source code from its ActionScript Virtual Machine, the scripting language engine in its Flash Player, the organizations will announce Tuesday at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco.

With the Adobe source code, Mozilla will host a new open source project called Tamarin to implement the final version of a standard scripting language in Firefox’s ScriptMonkey JavaScript engine. (more…)

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Mozilla.org releases Firefox 2.0 early

The final version of Mozilla Firefox 2.0 was slated for release on Tuesday, but appears to already be available for download via the company’s servers (releases.mozilla.org). Firefox 2.0 Release Candidate 3 (RC3) — which the Mozilla Foundation released last week — did well among those users who downloaded and tested the software, according to the company.

The final version of Firefox 2.0 was expected to be released on Tuesday, October 24th. Firefox 2.0 features built-in anti-phishing controls, built-in RSS and XML feed-viewing capabilities, and a new inline spell checker.

Further Firefox 2.0 features include the ability to create bookmarks with “Live Titles” for websites that offer “microsummaries,” a new Add-ons manager that simplifies management of extensions as well as themes, and support for JavaScript 1.7.

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Mozilla Strategizes With Microsoft On Security

Mozilla developers  spent several days this week with the Windows Vista team at Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash. campus and said that they’re considering implementing a security feature in the upcoming OS to better protect future versions of Firefox from attack.

Vladimir Vukievi, who was one of the Mozilla team to take up Microsoft’s August offer of Vista assistance, said that Vista’s “Low Integrity Mode” might make Firefox less susceptible to exploits. (more…)

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