nine fixes in its Wednesday launch of Firefox 62 for Windows , Mac and Android – including one for a critical glitch that could enable attackers to run arbitrary code . Overall , the latest version of the Firefox browser includedVulnerability-related.PatchVulnerabilityfixes for the critical issue , three high-severity flaws , two moderate problems and three low-severity vulnerabilities . Topping the list is a memory safety bug ( CVE-2018-12376 ) , discoveredVulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerabilityby a number of Mozilla developers and community members . A critical impact bug means the vulnerability can be used to run attacker code and install software , requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing , according to Mozilla . The memory safety problem , which exists inVulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerabilityFirefox 61 and Firefox ESR 60 , meets these criteria , researchers saidVulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability. Mozilla didn ’ t release further details , but it did assign one CVEVulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerabilityto represent multiple similar issues . In addition to the memory safety bug ( s ) , Mozilla also fixedVulnerability-related.PatchVulnerabilitythree high-severity vulnerabilities in its latest update . These include a use-after-free glitch in refresh driver timers ( CVE-2018-12377 ) , which power browser-page refreshes . Another high-severity bug ( CVE-2018-12378 ) is a use-after-free vulnerability that occursVulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerabilitywhen an IndexedDB index ( a low-level API for client-side storage of significant amounts of structured data ) is deleted while still in use by JavaScript code providing payload values . “ This results in a potentially exploitable crash , ” the advisory said . Mozilla developers and community members also foundVulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerabilitya memory-safety bug ( CVE-2018-12375 ) in Firefox 61 , which showed evidence of memory corruption and could be exploitedVulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerabilityto run arbitrary code , according to the advisory . The moderate and low-severity fixes that were deployedVulnerability-related.PatchVulnerabilityin Firefox 62 include patches for an out-of-bounds write flaw ( triggered when the Mozilla Updater opens a MAR format file that contains a very long item filename ) ; and a proxy bypass glitch in the browser ’ s proxy settings . Firefox 62 for desktop is availableVulnerability-related.PatchVulnerabilityfor download on Mozilla ’ s website .