Firefox 1.0.7 Released
Firefox 1.0.7 is a security and stability release. It is recommended that all Firefox users download this version. This version includes several security and stability fixes, including a fix for a reported buffer overflow vulnerability and a fix for a Linux shell command vulnerability.
Specific changes in Firefox 1.0.7:
- Fix for a potential buffer overflow vulnerability when loading a hostname with all soft-hyphens
- Fix to prevent URLs passed from external programs from being parsed by the shell (Linux only)
- Fix to prevent a crash when loading a Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) script that uses an "eval" statement
- Fix to restore InstallTrigger.getVersion() for Extension authors
- Other stability and security fixes
