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Mozilla / Firefox Memory Exposure Vulnerability

Posted by timothy on from the mine-sure-is-vulnerable dept.

JimmyM writes "Secunia has a story regarding a new severe vulnerability in the Mozilla Suite and Firefox browser, which can be exploited by any web site to read all memory, which the browser process has access to. No patch is available from Mozilla. A demonstration is available here."

3 of 132 comments (clear)

  1. oh man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    all those l33t hackers will be able to see all my pr0n!

  2. Re:No problem here by dougmc · · Score: 2, Funny
    just displays all "XXXXXXXXXXX" for me.
    Hey! How did it find my password on your browser?!@?!@$?!
  3. Re:IE & Opera Unaffected by MoogMan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well yeah, otherwise the headline would be

    "Mozilla / Firefox / IE / Opera Memory Exposure Vulnerability"

    wouldn't it?