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Mozilla Releases Firefox 2.0.0.16

Mozilla has released Firefox 2.0.0.162.0.0.16 to address two vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. One of these vulnerabilities may also affect Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.

US-CERT encourages users to review the following Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories and upgrade to a fixed version or implement the workarounds listed in the documents to help mitigate the risks.

MFSA 2008-34MFSA 2008-34 : Remote code execution by overflowing CSS reference counter
MFSA 2008-35MFSA 2008-35 : Command-line URLs launch multiple tabs when Firefox not running

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