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Mozilla Fixes Firefox Vulnerabilities Disclosed at Pwn2Own 2015

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Mozilla has released Firefox 36 updates to address the vulnerabilities presented by white-hat hackers at Pwn2Own 2015, the competition that took place last week at the CanSecWest security conference.

The first issue has been described by Mozilla as “code execution through incorrect JavaScript bounds checking elimination” (CVE-2015-0817). The security researcher who uses the online moniker “ilxu1a” leveraged this critical vulnerability at Pwn2Own to achieve medium-integrity code execution. The expert was awarded $15,000 for his accomplishment.

Read more from this [source] http://www.securityweek.com/mozilla-fixes-firefox-vulnerabilities-disclosed-pwn2own-2015

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