{"id":73511,"date":"2014-09-25T12:58:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T10:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=73511"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:27:12","slug":"firefox-and-thunderbird-get-critical-security-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/firefox-and-thunderbird-get-critical-security-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox and Thunderbird get &#8216;critical&#8217; security updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third update for <a href=\"http:\/\/mozilla-firefox.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Firefox 32<\/a> has arrived, version 32.0.3, and it fixes a <strong>critical security vulnerability<\/strong> in the browser. The same is true of Mozilla&#8217;s email client, Thunderbird, which also gets a security update to version 31.1.2.<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla&#8217;s description of the security threat is pretty complicated, but essentially, in its network security services (NSS), there&#8217;s a hole that could allow attackers to counterfeit security certificates, which makes <strong>browsing the web much less safe<\/strong>. French security researcher Antoine Delignat-Lavaud discovered the problem, and it was independently found by &#8216;The Advanced Threat Research team at Intel Security&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>If you use either program, you should update it as soon as possible. Mozilla&#8217;s &#8216;<strong>Security Advisories<\/strong>&#8216; are color coded for severity, and this one gets a red-colored &#8216;Critical&#8217; rating. Links are below for Windows and Mac.<\/p>\n<p>Download <strong>Firefox<\/strong> for <a href=\"http:\/\/mozilla-firefox.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mozilla-firefox.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mac<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download <strong>Thunderbird<\/strong> for <a href=\"http:\/\/mozilla-thunderbird.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mozilla-thunderbird.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mac<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/security\/announce\/2014\/mfsa2014-73.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mozilla<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Firefox for Android updated with more customization\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/firefox-for-android-updated-with-more-customization\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Firefox for Android updated with more customization<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Firefox 32 RC 1 released for desktop\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/firefox-32-rc-1-released-for-desktop\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WhatsApp beta for Android gets new image features<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mozilla: Firefox will not become a mess of sponsored content\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/mozilla-firefox-will-not-become-a-mess-of-sponsored-content\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mozilla: Firefox will not become a mess of sponsored content<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow Jonathan on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanriggall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jonathanriggall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third update for Firefox 32 has arrived, version 32.0.3, and it fixes a critical security vulnerability in the browser. The same is true of Mozilla&#8217;s email client, Thunderbird, which also gets a security update to version 31.1.2. Mozilla&#8217;s description of the security threat is pretty complicated, but essentially, in its network security services (NSS), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/firefox-and-thunderbird-get-critical-security-updates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Firefox and Thunderbird get &#8216;critical&#8217; security updates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-73511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330098,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73511\/revisions\/330098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73511"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=73511"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=73511"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=73511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}