Mozilla Firefox 30 Released, 7 Security Fixes Addressed

Internet browser Firefox 30 has been released officially. A total number of 7 security flaws have been addressed among which, 5 have been marked as critical. The remaining two are labeled as having high security impact.

Fixes in Firefox 30:

• MFSA 2014-54 Buffer overflow in Gamepad API
• MFSA 2014-53 Buffer overflow in Web Audio Speex resampler
• MFSA 2014-52 Use-after-free with SMIL Animation Controller
• MFSA 2014-51 Use-after-free in Event Listener Manager
• MFSA 2014-50 Clickjacking through cursor invisability after Flash interaction
• MFSA 2014-49 Use-after-free and out of bounds issues found using Address Sanitizer
• MFSA 2014-48 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:30.0 / rv:24.6)

Adding to this, there have been some extra features which were added, such as:

• Sidebars button in browser chrome enables faster access to social, bookmark, & history sidebars
• Mac OS X command-E sets find term to selected text
• Support for GStreamer 1.0

We advise our readers to update their Firefox to get the latest security fixes and also to enjoy the new features added.

Source:[Mozilla]