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Mozilla Updates to Firefox 19.0.2 for Pwn2own Flaw

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Sean Michael Kerner
Mar 8, 2013

Late Wednesday at the pwn2own hacking challenge, security firm VUPEN demonstrated a 0day flaw against a fully patched Firefox 19.0.1 browser running on Windows. VUPEN was awarded $60,000 from the contest organizer HP for the exploit.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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