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New Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 Exploit

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the happens-to-every-browser dept.

An anonymous reader writes "News sources are reporting that a 'killer' new Firefox exploit has been revealed today by FrSIRT who warn that this 0day exploit/vulnerability (as yet unpatched) should be rated as critical. Summary of the exploit: If a user clicks anywhere on a specially crafted page, this code will automatically create and execute a malicious batch/exe file. Proof of concept code supplied by FrSIRT."

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  1. Uh oh! by kryogen1x · · Score: 3, Funny
    Hey everyone let's use IE now, because it's safer than Firefox.

    Oh, wait.

  2. Summery? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Exploit summery? Well, the weather is improving but I doubt that the exploit caused it.

  3. Re:Pretty serious exploit by Mathiasdm · · Score: 5, Funny

    You converted 45 % of your family to Firefox?

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  4. Tried it on my Mac... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    didn't work

  5. New FrSIRT Vulnerability by NitsujTPU · · Score: 3, Funny

    FrSIRT Vurnerability Alert!!

    FrSIRT will go down 2 minutes after the start of a brutal Slashdotting.