LiveSecurity | Urgent: Firefox 3.6.11 Delivers 13 Security Fixes

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FIREFOX 3.6.11 DELIVERS 13 SECURITY FIXES

SEVERITY: MEDIUM

21 October, 2010

SUMMARY:

* These vulnerabilities affect: Firefox 3.6.x and 3.5.x for
Windows, Linux, and Macintosh

* How an attacker exploits it: Typically by enticing one of your
users to visit a malicious web page

* Impact: Various results; in the worst case, an attacker
executes code on your user's computer, gaining complete control
of it

* What to do: Upgrade to Firefox 3.6.1 (or 3.5.14), or let
Firefox's automatic update do it for you

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This is a summary, for the complete alert, see our web page:
https://www.watchguard.com/archive/showhtml.asp?pack=120075
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STATUS:

The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 3.6.11 to fix these
vulnerabilities.

REFERENCES:

* Firefox 3.6.11 Release Notes


* Vulnerabilities Fixed in Firefox 3.6.11


This alert was researched and written by Corey Nachreiner, CISS