[advisory] Firefox user? You need to update immediately

[RichCor]

As if there weren't enough exploits to worry about, this one is for FireFox.

In a blog post Thursday, Mozilla's Daniel Veditz wrote, "a Firefox user informed us that an advertisement on a news site in Russia was serving a Firefox exploit that searched for sensitive files and uploaded them to a server that appears to be in Ukraine. This morning Mozilla released security updates that fix the vulnerability. All Firefox users are urged to update to Firefox 39.0.3. The fix has also been shipped in Firefox ESR 38.1.1."

Update Firefox now! Fix rushed out for an exploit that steals files off your hard drive
If you haven't got the update yet, you should get it right now.
PCWorld | Ian Paul Contributor | Aug 7, 2015 7:01 AM


File-Stealing Firefox Exploit Patched
A day after a Firefox user in Russia disclosed the vulnerability, Mozilla released a security update.
PC Magazine | BY STEPHANIE MLOT | AUGUST 7, 2015

[RichCor]

Mozilla Firefox should update automatically when you select About Firefox from the menu option.

[Somtamnication]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Crossy]

+ lots Rich.

Mine did auto update ovenight.

[BuaBS]

Yeah well I take my chances with old but good and trusted FF 19. I don't go to Russian news sites and centainly not for pdf's. And from FF32 on , there are some problems with winXP.

But it is good to be warned.

[Anthony5]

I have Firefox 38.05 and when check for updates it says it's up to date.

[BuaBS]

If you're like me , and don't want to update and/or don't want to have that annoying PDF viewer in FF:

Go to about:config and change pdfjs.disabled to True.

PDF's now won't open in browser , but downloadable and open with Foxit , much better and smaller than the adobe cr-p.

[WorriedNoodle]

Thanks for the heads up.

I always run Sumo Update Monitor when I start my PC and it was listed

The annoying thing with Sumo is that it needs updating more than anything else on my PC. Nevertheless I use it and was wondering if the best way to update it is to still manually download the zip file, install it and run from there? Previously when I tried a more automated approach to installing Sumo I got a nasty attack of Malware if I am not mistaken so never tried anything other than the zip approach since?

[johnnybgood]

RichCor, thanks.

The "Kindness of Strangers" ...........always comes to my mind in this section.

[Digitalbanana]

FF updated to ver 40.0 today for me.

[KhunBENQ]

FF updated to ver 40.0 today for me.

Same to me after coming back home.

Betting is not allowed in Thailand.

Otherwise I would bet on the date for 40.0.1

[KhunBENQ]

Not for German version yet.

I am prepared for more to come

[BB1950]

The date that 40.0.1 came out is today Supposedly the forgot to add some file in the installation

I got 40.0.2 this morning.

[KhunBENQ]

40.0.2

I am always behind

Some information about a change in the "New Tab".

Haven't really read it, but spotted something like "suggested by Firefox"?

A new way to push ads?