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

    I use Lynx, you insensitive clod!

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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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  4. 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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  5. 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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