2 Firefox Security Flaws Lead to Exploit Potential

Posted by timothy on Monday May 9, 2005 @07:23AM from the live-dangerously dept.

Marthisdil points out a News.com story which reports that "Two vulnerabilities in the popular Firefox browser have been rated "extremely critical" because exploit code is now available to take advantage of them." Security firm Secunia reported the vulnerabilities (and the "extremely critical" rating is theirs), but the News.com story points out that thus far, "no known cases have yet emerged where an attacker took advantage of the public exploit code." Update: 05/09 20:20 GMT by T : Rebron of the Mozilla Foundation sends a correction; this is really the same flaw reported yesterday. He suggests that you glance at the Mozilla security alert on this hole (as well other alerts at the Mozilla Security Center), and says "The Mozilla Foundation has made changes to our update servers that will protect users from this arbitrary code execution exploit."

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make it stop! by justforaday · 2005-05-09 07:27 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Won't someone end this duplicity?!?

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dupe? by davez0r · 2005-05-09 07:28 · Score: 0, Flamebait

dupe?
Re:Market Share by derEikopf · 2005-05-09 07:45 · Score: 0, Flamebait

No shit, karma whore.
Re:Updating/Using only ONE copy of Firefox?? by Ptur · 2005-05-09 07:53 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Maybe time to switch back to IE, and let the automatic windows update do its work for ya?

(sorry, this one was way to easy to let pass by)