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New Firefox, Mozilla releases to fix bugs
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Posted by Donster on: 2005-09-15 15:58:19 952
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By Joris Evers Staff Writer, CNET News.com
The Mozilla Foundation plans to "shortly" release new versions of its Firefox and Mozilla Web browsers to address a recently disclosed serious security bug as well as several additional flaws, a representative said Wednesday.
The decision for new, so-called point releases was made after the disclosure last week of a problem in the way the browsers handle International Domain Names, or IDNs, Web addresses that use international characters. The vulnerability could let attackers secretly run malicious software on users' PCs. Hackers have been working on exploits for the flaw.
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