What's New in Mozilla 1.7.12
This document outlines the important bugfixes in Mozilla 1.7.12. See the "rough changelog" for a more comprehensive list of 1.7.12 fixes.
Under the Hood
- Fix for a potential buffer overflow vulnerability when loading a hostname with all soft-hyphens
- Fix to prevent URLs passed from external programs from being parsed by the shell (Linux only)
- Fix to prevent a crash when loading a Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) script that uses an "eval" statement
- Fix to restore
InstallTrigger.getVersion() for Extension authors
- Fix a crash in mail when stopping a search and then searching again
- Other stability and security fixes
These are items that have been added to the Known Issues page
since the last milestone, although the bugs themselves may have existed previously.