Seems like Pwn2Own is getting a reputation for uncovering some pretty nasty browser based vulnerabilities, once again this year Firefox, Safari and IE8 were all broken wide open. The latest development is Mozilla has beaten both Microsoft and Apple to the punch and released Firefox 3.6.3 patching the vulnerability.
Again it was a critical vulnerability and the creator netted himself $10,000 from the contest for the exploit. Pretty fast patching from Firefox though with an 8 day turnaround, and the vulnerability is only on Firefox 3.6.x not 3.5.x in its current state.

Mozilla late yesterday patched a critical Firefox vulnerability used by a German researcher to win $10,000 for hacking the open-source browser at last week

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