Update Firefox products now to fix critical vulnerabilities

During the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022 hacking event, Manfred Paul demonstrated an attack on the Firefox browser that involves two types of vulnerabilities: prototype pollution (CVE-2022-1802), and improper input validation (CVE-2022-1529). The attack took about 8 seconds to perform, resulting in a sandbox escape and eventually controlling the victim's operating system. In practice, users can be affected right after visiting a malicious website on a vulnerable system.

Two days after the demonstration, Mozilla released Firefox 100.0.2, Firefox …

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