Firefox and Chrome patched ALREADY after Pwn2own - now the pressure is on for IE and Microsoft!

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Firefox and Chrome patched ALREADY after Pwn2own - now the pressure is on for IE and Microsoft!

by Paul Ducklin on March 8, 2013

That was quick!

Mozilla and Google have already pushed out patches to stop the exploits that got past their browsers at this year's PWN2OWN competition!

Firefox goes to version 19.0.2, fixing what Mozilla describes as a Use-after-free in HTML Editor:

→ Mac and Linux users of Firefox may be wondering where 19.0.1 went, as they won't have seen such a version. It was a

Windows-only update to deal with some Windows-specific graphics card troubles. There were no security fixes in it.

Chrome goes to version 25.0.1364.160, fixing what Google calls a Type confusion in WebKit:

These updates certainly throw down the gauntlet to Microsoft, whose Internet Explorer 10 browser was also successfully breached in the competition.

Microsoft has already announced - or "pre-announced", whatever that means - the fixes that are coming in next week's Patch Tuesday, and for obvious reasons, the vulnerability revealed yesterday is not one of them. (More...)

Read the rest at: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/03/08/firefox-and-chrome-patched-already-after-pwn2own-now-the-pressure-is-on-for-ie-and-microsoft/

Steve

[CWB]

i updated the FF beta version i am on (now 20.xx) early this morning .