Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Be careful, dangerous bugs have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox

Be careful, dangerous bugs have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox

The last few months, many bugs or malicious exploitation of the smartphone, especially Android. Apparently, it also threatens the Mozilla Firefox browser users worldwide.

As reported by Tech Radar, Mozilla has announced that Firefox users in Russia there who have found something that wants to exploit the browser. This exploitation threaten users of Windows and Linux.

The users find bugs dangerous via a pop-up news sites in Russia unnamed. The bug is looking for sensitive files and uploaded to the server, which then appears to the server from Ukraine.

"Vulnerability is derived from the interaction mechanism that forced the separation of JavaScript contexts and Firefox PDF Viewer. Mozilla products that do not contain a PDF viewer, such as Firefox for Android, for now is not susceptible to this bug" Mozilla said in his blog.

Thus, the user is prompted caution, especially if the user has an ad-blocker in the browser computer. To completely avoid the dangerous bug, users are advised to update to version 39.0.3 Mozilla Firefox as soon as possible.

"If you use Firefox on Windows or Linux, then it is better you immediately change the password, and you must block file, if it finds a malicious file," added Mozilla.

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