Mozilla releases Firefox 65, fixes for critical bugs

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Mozilla releases Firefox 65

The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 65 that addresses multiple vulnerabilities, three of them critical.

In the latest security advisory 2019-01, Mozilla addressed three critical and three high severity vulnerabilities, as well as one moderate rated bug.

The critical bugs addressed include:

  • CVE-2018-18500: Use-after-free parsing HTML5 stream
  • CVE-2018-18501 and CVE-2018-18502: Memory safety bugs.

Mozilla noted that the memory corruption bugs could be exploited to run arbitrary code.