Firefox 25 Fixes 10 Security Flaws | Internet News

Firefox 25 Fixes 10 Security Flaws

Oct 30, 2013
1 minute read

Firefox 25 provides new features including enhanced Web audio capabilities and delivers at least 10 security updates for the open-source browser.

Mozilla rates as critical five of the security updates for Firefox 25. All five of the issues relate to various memory corruption risks that could potentially enable an attacker to use system memory to launch arbitrary code.

Firefox 25 also provides a security fix for a flaw that leverages the HTML iframes element. Mozilla warned in its security advisory that there was a flaw by which an attacker could maliciously manipulate an iframe with the PDF.js library for rendering PDFs.

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Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.

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