Over the past two years, Firefox has been mostly spared from zero-day attacks, despite the identification and patching of tens of severe vulnerabilities in the browser during this time. Technical details on the two security holes haven’t been shared either, but more information will likely be released once the majority of users have installed the patches. While the browser maker did not provide further details on the observed exploitation attempts, use-after-free vulnerabilities typically allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on target systems.īoth issues were resolved with the release of Firefox 97.0.2, Firefox ESR 91.6.1, Firefox for Android 97.3.0, and Focus 97.3.0, Mozilla says. “We have had reports of attacks in the wild abusing this flaw,” Mozilla notes in its advisory. The browser’s open-source design and inspiring history as part of the Free Software movement are part of the appeal. Every day, around 500 million people use the browser, and there are plenty of good reasons for this. The first of the vulnerabilities can be triggered by removing an Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) parameter during processing, while the second bug is triggered by an unexpected message in the WebGPU inter-process communication (IPC) framework. Although the advent of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox remains a key part of the online world. Tracked as CVE-2022-26485 and CVE-2022-26486 and rated “critical severity,” the two security holes are use-after-free issues that were discovered and reported by security researchers with Qihoo 360 ATA. I then attempted to start Firefox, getting the error, 'The code execution cannot proceed because VCRUNTIME1401.d.
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Mozilla over the weekend issued an emergency security update for Firefox to address two zero-day vulnerabilities that have been exploited in attacks. Answer: I was cleaning out my hard drive and deleting old installs of Microsoft Visual Studio Redistributable packages, and I almost certainly deleted the one that Firefox relies on.
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