Mozilla released Firefox 3.0.5 and your automatic update should have kicked in by now. This release is mainly focused on security and stability updates for the Firefox 3 release. You can find a list of security fixes at the end of this post.
In addition to the security fixes, the following updates are included in this release:
- Official releases for the Bengali, Esperanto, Galician, Hindi, and Latvian languages are now available.
- Replaced the End-User License Agreement with a new "Know Your Rights" info bar on initial install.
- When installing multiple signed XPIs simultaneously, previous versions of Firefox would fail.
- Fixed several issues found in the accessibility implementation.
- Added the ability to send OS-specific system notes in the crash reporter.
MFSA ID | Impact | Description |
---|---|---|
MFSA 2008-60 | Critical | Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.5/1.8.1.19) |
MFSA 2008-63 | Low | User tracking via XUL persist attribute |
MFSA 2008-64 | Moderate | XMLHttpRequest 302 response disclosure |
MFSA 2008-65 | High | Cross-domain data theft via script redirect error message |
MFSA 2008-66 | Low | Errors parsing URLs with leading whitespace and control characters |
MFSA 2008-67 | Low | Escaped null characters ignored by CSS parser |
MFSA 2008-68 | Critical | XSS and JavaScript privilege escalation |
MFSA 2008-69 | Critical | XSS vulnerabilities in SessionStore |