Mozilla Firefox 22.0 Released with Critical Security Updates ~ Security Garden

Mozilla sent Firefox Version 22.0 to the release channel. The current update includes fourteen security updates of which four are critical, six high, three moderate and one low.

Note: According to members at DSLReports, the update appears to have broken the Roboform toolbar. (H/T, siljaline)

Notable Changes

Social Services: New to version 22.0 is the ability to disable social media services that may be included with installed add-ons. To disable social services, open the add-ons manager and select Services to disable or remove any service that you have installed in the browser.

Plain text files: Word-wrap is a welcome change to viewing plain text files in this version of Firefox.

Fixed in Firefox 22

MFSA 2013-62 Inaccessible updater can lead to local privilege escalation
MFSA 2013-61 Homograph domain spoofing in .com, .net and .name
MFSA 2013-60 getUserMedia permission dialog incorrectly displays location
MFSA 2013-59 XrayWrappers can be bypassed to run user defined methods in a privileged context
MFSA 2013-58 X-Frame-Options ignored when using server push with multi-part responses
MFSA 2013-57 Sandbox restrictions not applied to nested frame elements
MFSA 2013-56 PreserveWrapper has inconsistent behavior
MFSA 2013-55 SVG filters can lead to information disclosure
MFSA 2013-54 Data in the body of XHR HEAD requests leads to CSRF attacks
MFSA 2013-53 Execution of unmapped memory through onreadystatechange event
MFSA 2013-52 Arbitrary code execution within Profiler
MFSA 2013-51 Privileged content access and execution via XBL
MFSA 2013-50 Memory corruption found using Address Sanitizer
MFSA 2013-49 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:22.0 / rv:17.0.7)

What’s New

NEW -- WebRTC is now enabled by default!
NEW -- Windows: Firefox now follows display scaling options to render text larger on high-res displays
NEW -- Mac OS X: Download progress in Dock application icon
NEW -- HTML5 audio/video playback rate can now be changed
NEW -- Social services management implemented in Add-ons Manager
NEW -- asm.js optimizations (OdinMonkey) enabled for major performance improvements
CHANGED -- Improved WebGL rendering performance through asynchronous canvas updates
CHANGED-- Plain text files displayed within Firefox will now word-wrap
CHANGED -- For user security, the |Components| object is no longer accessible from web content
CHANGED -- Improved memory usage and display time when rendering images
CHANGED-- Pointer Lock API can now be used outside of fullscreen
HTML5 -- New HTML5 and elements
FIXED -- Scrolling using some high-resolution-scroll aware touchpads feels slow (829952)

Known Issues

Unresolved-- If you try to start Firefox using a locked profile, it will crash (see 573369)

Update

To get the update now, select "Help" from the Firefox menu at the upper left of the browser window, then pick "About Firefox." Mac users need to select "About Firefox" from the Firefox menu.

If you do not use the English language version, Fully Localized Versions are available for download.

References

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013