Firefox 18 released, fixes security issues

Mozilla released Firefox 18 that fixes several security and stability issues.

Included in the update are twelve critical, seven high and one moderate security update.

Fixed in Firefox 18:

  • MFSA 2013-20 Mis-issued TURKTRUST certificates
  • MFSA 2013-19 Use-after-free in Javascript Proxy objects
  • MFSA 2013-18 Use-after-free in Vibrate
  • MFSA 2013-17 Use-after-free in ListenerManager
  • MFSA 2013-16 Use-after-free in serializeToStream
  • MFSA 2013-15 Privilege escalation through plugin objects
  • MFSA 2013-14 Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) bypass through changing prototype
  • MFSA 2013-13 Memory corruption in XBL with XML bindings containing SVG
  • MFSA 2013-12 Buffer overflow in Javascript string concatenation
  • MFSA 2013-11 Address space layout leaked in XBL objects
  • MFSA 2013-10 Event manipulation in plugin handler to bypass same-origin policy
  • MFSA 2013-09 Compartment mismatch with quickstubs returned values
  • MFSA 2013-08 AutoWrapperChanger fails to keep objects alive during garbage collection
  • MFSA 2013-07 Crash due to handling of SSL on threads
  • MFSA 2013-06 Touch events are shared across iframes
  • MFSA 2013-05 Use-after-free when displaying table with many columns and column groups
  • MFSA 2013-04 URL spoofing in addressbar during page loads
  • MFSA 2013-03 Buffer Overflow in Canvas
  • MFSA 2013-02 Use-after-free and buffer overflow issues found using Address Sanitizer
  • MFSA 2013-01 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:18.0/ rv:10.0.12 / rv:17.0.2)
  • MFSA 2012-98 Firefox installer DLL hijacking.

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