{"id":7385,"date":"2012-11-21T13:14:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T20:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/?p=7385"},"modified":"2012-12-13T08:45:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T16:45:04","slug":"mozilla-patches-16-vulnerabilities-with-firefox-17-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/mozilla-patches-16-vulnerabilities-with-firefox-17-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Patches 16 Vulnerabilities with Firefox 17 Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 17 for Mac OS X 10.6 and later, with patches for six critical vulnerabilities that the company sees as remotely exploitable. Firefox 17 patches a combined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/security\/known-vulnerabilities\/firefox.html#firefox17\" target=\"_blank\">16 vulnerabilities<\/a>, 15 of which Mozilla considers high-impact or critical flaws, and one moderate-impact flaw. Critical-impact flaws are those that can be used to run attacker code and install software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing.<\/p>\n<p>Six critical flaws fixed in Firefox 17 are described as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/security\/announce\/2012\/mfsa2012-106.html\" target=\"_blank\">MFSA 2012-106<\/a> Use-after-free, buffer overflow, and memory corruption issues found using Address Sanitizer<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/security\/announce\/2012\/mfsa2012-105.html\" target=\"_blank\">MFSA 2012-105<\/a> Use-after-free and buffer overflow issues found using Address Sanitizer<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/security\/announce\/2012\/mfsa2012-104.html\" target=\"_blank\">MFSA 2012-104<\/a> CSS and HTML injection through Style Inspector<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/security\/announce\/2012\/mfsa2012-94.html\" target=\"_blank\">MFSA 2012-94<\/a> Crash when combining SVG text on path with CSS<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/security\/announce\/2012\/mfsa2012-92.html\" target=\"_blank\">MFSA 2012-92<\/a> Buffer overflow while rendering GIF images<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/security\/announce\/2012\/mfsa2012-91.html\" target=\"_blank\">MFSA 2012-91<\/a> Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:17.0\/ rv:10.0.11)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We recommend all users upgrade to the latest version, which you can do on your Mac by using the browser\u2019s internal updater (go to Firefox &gt; About Firefox &gt; Check for Updates). You may also head over to Mozilla\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/new\/\" target=\"_blank\">download page to get Firefox 17<\/a> on your Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 17 for Mac OS X 10.6 and later, with patches for six critical vulnerabilities that the company sees as remotely exploitable. Firefox 17 patches a combined 16 vulnerabilities, 15 of which Mozilla considers high-impact or critical flaws, and one moderate-impact flaw. 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