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Big Day For Browser Vulnerabilities

Posted by timothy on from the uh-oh dept.

An anonymous reader writes "All browsers have been reported vulnerable to different vulnerabilities today. Starting with: Internet Explorer on XP SP1/SP2, which suffers a new system compromise (of course) vulnerability. Continuing with: Opera, Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox / Camino, Safari, Netscape, Konqueror, Avant Browser and Maxthon, which all suffers some new spoofing vulnerabilitities. Demonstrations of the spoofing vulnerabilities are available here and here."

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  1. NY Times Ad... by jea6 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stop the presses.

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  2. Phew! by acehole · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lynx missed out!

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    1. Re:Phew! by Reducer2001 · · Score: 3, Funny

      10.1!? Tell us, what is the future like? Will the Red Sox beat the Yankees this year?

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  3. All browsers? by chjones · · Score: 5, Funny
    All browsers have been reported vulnerable to different vulnerabilities today.

    I use Lynx, you insensitive clod!

    CDJ
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    1. Re:All browsers? by byolinux · · Score: 5, Funny

      I use Lynx, you insensitive clod!

      Must you post in HTML? I use telnet to fetch/post my web traffic you insensitive clod! It's people like you who clog up the web! ;)

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    2. Re:All browsers? by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Funny

      I use telnet to fetch/post my web traffic you insensitive clod!

      Y ME 2 BUT MY IP/OP IS ALL ON PNCH CRDS IT PPLE LKE U WHO CLG UP THE WEB

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    3. Re:All browsers? by WildFire42 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Wow, you use uccp? That's lucky. I've got an antique Chinese abacus that I use to help me convert from digital information to text. Playing Doom is kind of difficult, but Space Invaders works. I move the pieces and my brother throws rocks at it.

      On the upside, there is a phone line a few miles away, and I can whistle at 75 baud.

      Of course, this was my one Slashdot post for the year, since it will take me another year just to get through the next article.

    4. Re:All browsers? by mikael · · Score: 2, Funny

      I get all my downloads from a CD-ROM delivered by snail-mail, which is then fetched by my dog and delivered onto my lap, without me ever leaving my armchair or having to use broadband.

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  4. What am I doing here? by Locdonan · · Score: 2, Funny

    I need to pull the plug! I gotta get off the net!
    someone is going to steal all my PORN!

    So, what now? I guess I pull this cord right her....

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  5. Re:Oh my Gosh... by Dehumanizer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wanna guess how long Mozilla, Firefox and such will take to fix this?

    And how long IE will take?

    Didn't think so. :)

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  6. spoofing demos aren't working on my browser by nounderscores · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess the best defense is a good slashdotting.

    1. Re:spoofing demos aren't working on my browser by eobanb · · Score: 5, Funny

      I get it. It tricks the browser into displaying a blank page. Clever bastards.

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  7. Tabs by Tom · · Score: 1, Funny

    Preface: I love tabs to death, I don't remember how I could surf without them anymore.

    That said, tabs are problematic, especially if you have several open to the same site but in different sessions.

    For example, in my online game (see below), you can play several characters with the same account. If you play char 1, open a tab, do something there, then log out and log into your character 2 while the tab with char 1 is still open, woohoo, there's all kinds of trouble waitin' for ya, son.

    Tabs make switching so convenient that you sometimes forget just where you were and what you were doing.

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  8. Vulnerability report vulnerability by Gadzinka · · Score: 2, Funny

    Seems like all the vulnerability reports are vulnerable to reporing them on /.

    Robert

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  9. Spoofing Demo Vs. Slashdot by AbbyNormal · · Score: 3, Funny

    Spoofing Demo 0
    Slashdot 1

    Take that you evil spoofers!

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  10. Eff these browsers... all of them... by McNihil · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am using "telnet 80" from now on... and if by chance that is vulnerable I'll write my own minimal telnet client... so what... my eyes will bleed of html tags and other cruft... ok so where do I get a ssl capable telnet client so that I can do my online banking?

    SIMPLICITY FOLKS!!!

    Less features is better.

  11. WHAAAT by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I always visit pr0n sites while I'm paying my bills, and checking on my investments, while paying taxes and entering my credit card numbers

  12. Honor System Browser Exploit by TheOtherChimeraTwin · · Score: 3, Funny
    This browser exploit works on the honor system.

    If you are using IE, FireFox, Opera or another graphical browser, please visit a dozen porn sites and delete two files at random from your hard drive.

    If you are using Lynx or another text browser, please visit http://www.asciipr0n.com/ and delete three files at random from your hard drive.

    Thank you for your cooperation.

  13. Re:Dear God, make it STOP! by pcmills · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just place an sh in front of the it.slashdot.org for an appropriate link.

    http://shit.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/20 /1 344208&tid=172&tid=113&tid=154&tid=114&tid=218

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  14. Big Day For Colour Vulnerabilities by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    http://shit.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/20/1 344208