Mozilla Firefox 13 Set to Improve Security with ASLR

Written By
SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Mar 6, 2012

“Add-ons have long been the weakest link in the chain of Firefox
security. In Firefox 13, Mozilla is to close the gap a little
tighter by forcing add-ons to do something they should have been
doing all along: Implement ASLR (Address Space Layout
Randomization).


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Sean Michael Kerner

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