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Gentoo: GLSA-200408-22 Normal: Mozilla, Firefox, and Thunderbird DoS Fix

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Firefox and Mail Client patches address severe vulnerabilities such as remote denial-of-service issues and buffer overflow concerns. Update immediately for enhanced security.
New releases of Mozilla, Epiphany, Galeon, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Mozilla Firefox fix several vulnerabilities, including remote DoS and buffer overflows

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200408-22
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, Galeon, Epiphany: New
            releases fix vulnerabilities
      Date: August 23, 2004
      Bugs: #57380, #59419
        ID: 200408-22


Synopsis
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New releases of Mozilla, Epiphany, Galeon, Mozilla Thunderbird, and
Mozilla Firefox fix several vulnerabilities, including remote DoS and
buffer overflows.

Background
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Mozilla is a popular web browser that includes a mail and newsreader.
Galeon and Epiphany are both web browsers that use gecko, the Mozilla
rendering engine. Mozilla Firefox is the next-generation browser from
the Mozilla project that incorporates advanced features that are yet to
be incorporated into Mozilla. Mozilla Thunderbird is the
next-generation mail client from the Mozilla project.

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