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Gentoo GLSA 200409-26 Normal: Mozilla Update for Remote Execution Threat

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Latest updates for Mozilla's Firefox, Thunderbird, and Epiphany address critical vulnerabilities, among which remote code execution risks are notably mitigated.
New releases of Mozilla, Epiphany, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Mozilla Firefox fix several vulnerabilities, including the remote execution of arbitrary code

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200409-26
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, Epiphany: New releases fix
            vulnerabilities
      Date: September 20, 2004
      Bugs: #63996
        ID: 200409-26


Synopsis
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New releases of Mozilla, Epiphany, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Mozilla
Firefox fix several vulnerabilities, including the remote execution of
arbitrary code.

Background
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Mozilla is a popular web browser that includes a mail and newsreader.
Epiphany is a web browser that uses Gecko, the Mozilla rendering
engine. Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird are respectively the
next-generation browser and mail client from the Mozilla project.

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