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2 Firefox Security Flaws Lead to Exploit Potential

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. FiberFHAX is teh SUXXORAS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    LOAL DUDES!!!

    USE SAFEARI ON OH ESS EX!

    Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like NAMBLA.

  2. make it stop! by justforaday · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Won't someone end this duplicity?!?

    --
    I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
  3. dupe? by davez0r · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    dupe?

  4. I've been saying this all along. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Firefox sucks, and is bloated. slashdot quit advertising this gay browser.

  5. Re:Market Share by derEikopf · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No shit, karma whore.

  6. Shut your shazflak by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    just use the same borg gates icon or maybe make a cute lil windows logo icon :D

    Pretty funny, you bitching about 'cutesy' crap in the same fucking thread you used 'sploit' in. That's not a word. May as well say 'gabblefackit'. Hey there ya go - you can cram your stupid make-believe words up your retarded gabblefackit.

  7. fi8st pos7 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    SURPRISE To THE

  8. Re:Updating/Using only ONE copy of Firefox?? by Ptur · · 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)

  9. Re:sorry.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, yeah... Bill, quit trolling and go fix Longhorn or something. And hey, isn't that a cheese?