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Critical Mozilla, Thunderbird Vulnerabilities
d3ik writes "An advisory has been issued on several buffer overflow exploits in the Mozilla and Thunderbird code. Coincidentally, one of the exploits takes advantage of a unchecked buffer in the bitmap parser, very similar to recent Microsoft JPEG vulnerability.
The good news is that if you have an updated version (Mozilla 1.7.3, Firefox 1.0PR, Thunderbird 0.8) you won't be affected."
And thats why Open Source is better! find it one day patch it the next.
A psychopath can't tell the difference between right and wrong. A sociopath knows the difference - he just doesn't care.
it A break, 1f
Those who talk about shit are full of it.
I'm so glad this happened, which it would happen hourly so that those annoying FSF/OSS brats shut up.
Diversity is the key to security. I'm glad we still have quite a few choices around, no matter where we look.
meet her one day, fuck her the next
what a skank
Yeah, because everyone knows that open source software never has bugs.
How will they ever gain back their reputation now that they have a BUG?? Maybe there is some way they can rationize it away?
City in Kaleeforna ruled in similar fashion
With great power comes great electricity bills.
Ya khochu poyekhat' v Rossiyu! *plane zips off toward Moscow*
You: "Corporations are evil."
Pardon me for paraphrasing. I am getting so sick of you naive, shortsighted, hippy kids blindly bashing the big, evil, faceless "corporations." Open your eyes. You are living in a capitalist society. Don't like it? A photo and a bit of paperwork, and you can be on your way to a new life in China or North Korea.
Do companies exist to make money? Yes. Do they try to maximize their profits and return-on-investment for their shareholders? Of course.
But what people like you don't seem to understand is that these aren't a bunch of faceless suits, they are people like you and me. If you own a 401(k) (and it sounds like you are too young to be there yet), then you are a shareholder. People like your parents, your coworkers, are the investors that these companies are answering to. If these companies didn't do everything reasonable to make a profit, then these retirees and investors (i.e., you, me, our parents) dump their stock and switch to someone with better revenue forecasts.
Do companies use every tax loophole available to them to increase profits? Yes, of course! So do I! When I do my taxes each spring, I declare every single write-off I am legally entitled to. It's just common sense. Why wouldn't you? Would you pay extra tax just out of the kindness of your heart? Of course not! Then why would you expect a corporation to do it?
A corporation is not a bunch of faceless, hive-minded "good-'ol-boys" in a locked-up boardroom on the 100th floor, making decisions to sacrifice babies for increased profits. It's just a bunch of harmeless MBA's doing what they do best: marketing, accounting, sales, and whatever else their business entails.
In summary, it just bugs me when I see hypocrites like you lashing out at "corporations" when you don't even really seem to understand where your retirement investment is going to come from. Guess what - it'll be those very same corporations, and you'll be demanding profits.
Wake up and lay off.
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