Security News > 2018 > January > Mozilla Patches Critical Code Execution Flaw in Firefox

2018-01-31 09:31
An update released this week by Mozilla for Firefox 58 patches a critical vulnerability that can be exploited by a remote attacker for arbitrary code execution. Mozilla developer Johann Hofmann discovered that arbitrary code execution is possible due to unsanitized output in the browser UI. read more
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