31 July 2007

Security advisory

Another critical vulnerability has been discovered in July in the popular free programs distributed from the Mozilla Foundation. Such products include the popular browser Firefox and the email client Thunderbird.  The vulnerability has to do with incorrect handling of URIs passed to external programs.

This vulnerability could allow remote code execution.  

Mozilla has published updated program versions which have corrected the vulnerability.

More information is available on Mozilla.org's web site from the following links:

Norman advices all affected users to download the updates as soon as possible, to be protected from potential exploits.