For the second time in two months, Mozilla on Friday hurried out a fix for Firefox to patch a trouble with a browser update issued just days prior to.
Mozilla dispatched Firefox 3.6.8 on Friday to patch a single security trouble and transaction with what Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox, called "a constancy trouble that artificial some pages with embedded connects." The corporations had launched Firefox 3.6.7 two days earlier.
Mozilla patched one dangerous security bug in latest update, as per the advisory as well published Friday. "In sure situations, properties in connect example's parameter collection might be freed in advance, leaving a floppy pointer that the plug-in might perform, potentially calling into attacker-controlled memory," the caution read. The bug surfaced in one of 16 patches that Mozilla applied to Firefox earlier in week.
Details of that vulnerability, and constancy trouble that Beltzner stated, were not obtainable to the public as of Saturday. Some Firefox users, though, had filed numerous reports to browser's support forum of troubles with Adobe's Flash Player plug-in after updating to Firefox 3.6.7.



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