Download Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.17

In addition to a new version in the 3 series, the Mozilla Foundation has also compiled a new version of the Firefox 2.0 series. Firefox is an open source web browser that comes standard with tabbed browsing, a pop-up blocker and an RSS reader. In addition, it is possible to add extra functionality by means of add-ons. Furthermore, the appearance of Firefox can also be changed via themes. Unlike the new version of the 3 branch, the new 2.0 release contains no new features, but does contain a series of security updates. For example, a memory leak has been fixed that caused the browser to crash and a buffer overflow has been removed from the utf-8 stack:

Fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.17

• MFSA 2008-45 XBM image uninitialized memory reading
• MFSA 2008-44 resource: traversal vulnerabilities
• MFSA 2008-43 BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution
• MFSA 2008-42 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17)
• MFSA 2008-41 Privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution
• MFSA 2008-40 Forced mouse drag
• MFSA 2008-39 Privilege escalation using feed preview page and XSS flaw
• MFSA 2008-38 nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() same-origin violation
• MFSA 2008-37 UTF-8 URL stack buffer overflow