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Mozilla has confirmed the first security vulnerability in Firefox 3.5, saying that the bug could be used to hijack a machine running the company’s newest browser. A noted Firefox contributor called the situation ’self-inflicted’ and said it was likely that the hacker who posted public exploit code Monday became aware of the flaw by rooting through Bugzilla, Mozilla’s bug- and change-tracking database. The vulnerability is in the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine that debuted with Firefox 3.5, said Mozilla. ‘[It] can be exploited by an attacker who tricks a victim into viewing a malicious Web page containing the exploit code,’ Mozilla’s security blog reported.

Tracy Jones-Harris Internet, computers Bugzilla, Firefox, Firefox 3.5, Mozilla, Vulnerability

After some rather impressive RC builds, Firefox 3.5 is all packaged up and ready for public consumption. Mozilla is saying its new browser is more than two times faster than Firefox 3, but what has us more excited is the support for plugin-free “open codec” video and audio playback using Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora– it’s still in its infancy, but the subtle glimpse we’ve seen so far of a world without Flash video reducing our CPU to jelly is rather compelling.

Tracy Jones-Harris Uncategorized Firefox, Firefox 3, Firefox 3.5, Mozilla, Ogg Theora, Ogg Vorbis