IE And Firefox Get Patches

By Digital Trends Staff December 17, 2008

IE And Firefox Get Patches

As promised, Microsoft issued an emergency patch yesterday for the exploitable hole in all versions of the Internet Explorer browser. At the same time, Mozilla came out with a patch that covers eight security problems in Firefox 2 and 3 – the last time there will be a patch for Firefox 2, as security support for that version ends. The company is urging users to upgrade to Firefox 3.

There will also no longer be anti-phishing protection for Firefox 2 as Google has dropped support for that version’s phishing blacklist.

The Firefox patch resolves a number of problems, including on that could result in an exploitation allowing the remote execution of code.

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