Mozilla Thunderbird 2.x: Critical Security Flaws Resolved

"The Mozilla organization has released an update to its Thunderbird 2.x e-mail client that fixes two critical security holes. These same fixes were also recently implemented in Firefox 2.0.0.5. " I found it to be interesting that the same security flaw was in both Firefox browser and in Thunderbird email client. When I starting to think about it, I found that it would make sense because the Mozilla organization works on both projects. Do you see yourself making the same security mistakes across different projects?

At that time, one of these holes generated a bit of controversy when researchers found an exploit that could take advantage of apparent flaws in both Firefox and Internet Explorer in a play to take over a user's PC remotely.

The two parties had a somewhat public row over whose problem it was.

The folks at Mozilla responded quickly and patched their end of the hole.

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