Mozilla Fixes Bugs Ahead Of Firefox 3.5 Beta Release
The fixes come as part of Firefox 3.0.9, which was made available Tuesday. This latest version of the Web browser comes ahead of the release of a new version of Firefox, expected sometime this week.
On April 14, Mozilla outlined the problems that existed in the previous iteration of Firefox.
"Mozilla developers identified and fixed several stability bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these crashes showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code," the company wrote.
The suggested workaround for these issues, according to the company, was to disable JavaScript. According to the site, these problems should be fixed with the release of Firefox version 3.0.9.
The current version of the open-source Web browser also addressed stability issues and bug 482659, a problem where a corrupt local database caused Firefox to lose its stored cookies.
Firefox 3.0.9 marks what has been a busy year plugging holes for Mozilla. On Feb. 3, version 3.0.6 was released, which corrected memory-corruption errors and cross-site scripting flaws. The next version, 3.0.7, was released on March 5 and corrected flaws that may have allowed criminals to conduct URL spoofing attacks. Finally, Firefox 3.0.8, released March 28, fixed eight security issues.
The browser is available across Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. Firefox 3.0.9 is available for download now at getfirefox.com.