Firefox 158.0.1 is out with important security fixes

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Mozilla Firefox 158.0.1 is rolling out with some important security fixes. Now, I don’t tend to cover Firefox point releases as mainly ship minor fixes for things the majority of users won’t have noticed were wrong in the first place. The Firefox 158.0.1 update is more ‘meaty’ than usual fare. Among the security advisories this update covers are eight intermediate certificates belonging to the eMudhra certificate authority, whose private keys were compromised. Anyone holding those keys could issue certificates that browsers accept as genuine for any website. If they can also intercept a user’s connection, they could impersonate the site […]You're reading Firefox 158.0.1 is out with important security fixes, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.