Download Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.9

The Mozilla Foundation officially released version 1.5.0.9 of its web browser Firefox yesterday. Although version 2.0 has been out for a while, Mozilla has made a commitment to continue releasing security and stability updates for the old 1.5 branch at least until April 24 of next year. It does make the urgent call to upgrade to 2.0. In addition to the ever-present ‘improvements with regard to stability’, version 1.5.0.9 addresses seven security problems, the same as those in version 2.0.0.1 released yesterday. implemented. The changelog therefore looks like this:

What’s New in Firefox 1.5.0.9

• Improvements to product stability
• Fixed in Firefox 1.5.0.9
  • MFSA 2006-75 RSS Feed preview referrer leak
  • MFSA 2006-73 Mozilla SVG Processing Remote Code Execution
  • MFSA 2006-72 XSS by setting img.src to javascript: URI
  • MFSA 2006-71 LiveConnect crash finalizing JS objects
  • MFSA 2006-70 Privilege escalation using watch point
  • MFSA 2006-69 CSS cursor image buffer overflow (Windows only)
  • MFSA 2006-68 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.9/1.8.1.1)

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