Mozilla Firefox Version 85.0.1 Released With Security Update

Mozilla sent Firefox Version 85.0.1 to the release channel today.  The update includes one (1) critical security update.

 

Firefox ESR was updated to Version 78.7.1.

Critical:

• #MOZ-2021-0001: Buffer overflow in depth pitch calculations for compressed textures
  (Note:  This issue has been assigned a temporary identifier, pending assignment of a CVE.)
  

New
 

• Prevent access to NTFS special paths that could lead to filesystem corruption.
• Fixed a crash when authenticating to websites using SPNEGO on macOS devices with Apple Silicon CPUs (bug 1685427).
• Avoid printing an extra blank page at the end of some documents (bug 1689789).
• Fixed a browser crash in case of unexpected Cache API state (bug 1684838).
• FIxed external URL scheme handlers when using the Firefox flatpak (bug 1688966)

References

• Security Updates
• Release Notes
• Rapid Release Calendar

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