The Mozilla Foundation has issued new versions of Firefox, Thunderbird and Seamonkey. These fix vulnerabilities of which some are deemed critical.

MFSA 2006-44 (http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-44.html): Code execution through deleted frame reference.
This vulnerability allows remote execution and affects only Firefox 1.5 and SeaMonkey 1.0. As Thunderbird uses the same browser engine as Firefox it is vulnerable to this as well, but the JavaScript parsing function in e-mails is not turned on by default (and we recommend that it stays turned off).

MFSA 2006-45 (http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-45.html): Javascript navigator Object Vulnerability.
Another remote execution vulnerability, affects Firefox 1.5 and SeaMonkey.

MFSA 2006-46 (http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-46.html): Memory corruption with simultaneous events.
Remote execution vulnerability, affects Firefox and SeaMonkey.

MFSA 2006-47 (http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-47.html): Native DOM methods can be hijacked across domains.
Information leaking vulnerability, can be combined with XSS, although limited. Affects Firefox and SeaMonkey.

MFSA 2006-48 (http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-48.html): JavaScript new Function race condition.
Remote execution vulnerability, affects Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.

MFSA 2006-49 (http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-49.html): Heap buffer overwrite on malformed vCard, affects Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.

MFSA 2006-50 (http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-50.html): JavaScript engine vulnerabilities
Multiple vulnerabilities which can lead to remote execution, affect Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.

MFSA 2006-51 (http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-51.html): Privilege escalation using named-functions and redefined “new Object()”.
Remote execution vulnerability, affects Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey.

MFSA 2006-52 (http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-52.html): PAC privilege escalation using Function.prototype.call
Remote script execution vulnerability through a “poisoned” PAC file. Affects Firefox and SeaMonkey.

MFSA 2006-53 (http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-53.html): UniversalBrowserRead privilege escalation.
Remote script execution vulnerability, affects Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.

MFSA 2006-54 (http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-54.html): XSS with XPCNativeWrapper(window).Function(…).
XSS vulnerability using the XPCNativeWrapper construct. Affects Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.

MFSA 2006-55 (http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-55.html): Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.5).
Probably just a DoS attack, but there is a possibility that it could be turned into a remote execution vulnerability. Affects Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.

MFSA 2006-56 (http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-56.html): chrome: scheme loading remote content
Remote script execution vulnerability that affects Firefox and SeaMonkey.

If the automatic update hasn’t kicked in yet be sure to update soon.

[tags]Firefox Vulnerabilities, Thunderbird Vulnerability, Seamonkey Vulnerability, Security Patches[/tags]

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