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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Change Icon by norm_z · 2005-05-09 07:42 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Could we get a new icon for Firefox and dump the Mozilla icon?
Patch available here by TrappedByMyself · 2005-05-09 08:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic

patch

sorry, it was just so easy

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Help me take back Slashdot. When did 'News for Nerds' become 'FUD and Conspiracy Theories for Extremist Nutjobs'?
Re:sorry.. by bobbyjack · 2005-05-09 08:27 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Got any good suggestions?
An alternative by op12 · 2005-05-09 08:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Why not try this? http://news.google.com/?ned=us&topic=t

It actually covers many of the headlines seen recently on Slashdot, but without the dupes, and generally without the bias.
Re:sorry.. by muzzmac · 2005-05-09 10:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

And yet like KFC, you keep coming back.
Re:sorry.. by mikerozh · 2005-05-09 12:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Then why do you read /.