A critical security vulnerability in the Firefox web browser has been patched by the Mozilla developers and will be made available on March 30 with the release of Firefox 3.6.2. The vulnerability, which received a critical rating from the Mozilla developers and third parties like Secunia could result in remote code execution.
The security vulnerability was discovered in February by Russian security researchers who did not communicate directly with the Mozilla development team. This was the main reason for the long patch development.
The patch has already been included in beta versions of Firefox 3.6.2 which currently undergo quality assurance tests before the final release.
Firefox 3.6 users who are concerned about the security vulnerability are asked to install the latest released beta version of Firefox 3.6.2 to protect their computer system from the remote exploit.
Another option is to use a different web browser for the time being until the official version of Firefox 3.6.2 has been released. We will inform you as usual as soon as we got our hands on the final release of Firefox 3.6.2 which sometimes is 24-48 hours before the official release announcement and the automatic update check notices the new release.
The latest beta of Firefox 3.6.2 which contains the security patch can be downloaded from the Mozilla ftp server.
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did’nt 3.6.2 push out yesterday?
I had a update come in…*checks* yup running 3.6.2 right now…