Thread: Mozilla patches Firefox for 16 security bugs

Mozilla patched 16 vulnerabilities, nine of them vital, in Firefox 3.6, the biggest update for open-source browser. At the similar time, the corporation patched 12 faults in older Firefox 3.5.

More than half nine out of 16 of vulnerabilities in Firefox 3.6 were speed "critical," Mozilla's uppermost threat ranking, representative that hackers might be able to utilize them to cooperation a system running Firefox, and then plant other malware on machine. Of the remains, two were pegged as "high" risks, whereas other five were labeled as "moderate."

Five of vulnerabilities were reported to Mozilla by HP Tipping Point's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), one of two foremost commercial bug bounty programs, whereas two were dispense to Mozilla's developers by researchers who work for Google.

Earlier this month, Mozilla had said it was planning to dispatch Firefox patches prior to the annual Black Hat security conference, which is slated to start next week in Las Vegas. The corporation did similar last year, when it revitalized Firefox 3.0 with an 11-patch update just days prior to 2009's edition of conference kicked off.

Mozilla presently has preparations to produce one more Firefox update after Black Hat, most probably to fix any faults researchers disclose at popular conference.