Mozilla's newest release closes 10 memory bugs

Mozilla on Tuesday released version 6 of its Firefox web browser, in the process closing 10 vulnerabilities. "Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort, at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code," according to a security advisory. Mozilla also upgraded its Thunderbird email and news client and SeaMonkey internet suite.

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