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Mozilla has released the latest version of stable firefox 1.5.0.4 for public usage. Those who have chosen the automatic update mode will get an alert from Firefox to update to 1.5.0.4, I did get the same one and had automatic update run for me.

Firefox 1.5.0.4 is a security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.

* Improvements to product stability
* Several security fixes

 

The security fixes for firefox includes

* Privilege escalation using addSelectionListener
* Web site XSS using BOM on UTF-8 pages
* File stealing by changing input type (variant)
* "View Image" local resource linking (Windows)
* Buffer overflow in crypto.signText()
* Remote compromise via content-defined setter on object prototypes
* PLUGINSPAGE privileged JavaScript execution 2
* Privilege escalation through XUL persist
* XSS viewing javascript: frames or images from context menu
* HTTP response smuggling
* Fixes for crashes with potential memory corruption
* EvalInSandbox escape (Proxy Autoconfig, Greasemonkey)

You can download the latest stable version of Firefox 1.5.0.4 from GetFirefox.com.

 

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