Crap, more and more are picking apart Mozilla - my favorite browser. Well at least they are getting discovered so we are aware of the issues and are getting fixed.

I'm concerned as to how easily exploitable is this seeing how it could be very pervasive and spreadable (re.; via ad banners for example, or small invisible GIFs in emails).

Details....
Mozilla GIF Image Processing Library Remote Heap Overflow Vulnerability

Impact:
Remote attacker may execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running the application.

Affected Versions:
* Mozilla Browser versions prior to 1.7.6
* Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 1.0.2
* Mozilla Thunderbird Mail client versions prior to 1.0.2

Advisory: http://www.mozilla.org/security/anno...sa2005-30.html

Solution/Remediation:
Upgrade to...
* Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2 http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
* Mozilla Browser 1.7.6 http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/
* Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 http://download.mozilla.org/?product...win&lang=en-US