As promised, Microsoft issued an emergency patch yesterday for the exploitable hole in all versions of the Internet Explorer browser. At the same time, Mozilla came out with a patch that covers eight security problems in Firefox 2 and 3 – the last time there will be a patch for Firefox 2, as security support for that version ends. The company is urging users to upgrade to Firefox 3.
There will also no longer be anti-phishing protection for Firefox 2 as Google has dropped support for that version’s phishing blacklist.
The Firefox patch resolves a number of problems, including on that could result in an exploitation allowing the remote execution of code.
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