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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. I'm sure everyone whill complain by Saven+Marek · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And everyone will say ":oh no firefox is a security risk" whaaaa. well this isnt really the case and is overstating things just a bit. When it comes down to it firefox still has many quicker fixes and the bug is probably already fixed by now.

    So if this is the case where is the problem? a non issue if you ask me.

  2. Batch file EXE by hackus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I keep testing the batch file.exe exploit it says and just can't seem to get it too work??

    -Hack
    -Fedora Core Test 4

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    Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.