Unpatched Firefox Flaw May Expose Users

Posted by Zonk on Friday September 9, 2005 @03:16AM from the again dept.

Corrado writes "CNET is reporting on a new Firefox flaw." From the article: "The problem lies in the way Firefox handles Web links that are overly long and contain dashes, security researcher Tom Ferris said in an interview via instant messaging late Thursday. He posted an advisory and a proof of concept to the Full Disclosure security mailing list and to his Security Protocols Web site...The public bug disclosure comes just as Mozilla released the first beta of Firefox 1.5. The final release of the next Firefox update, which includes security enhancements, is due by year's end, according to the Firefox road map."

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Flaws by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-09 03:19 · Score: -1, Redundant

are not good
1. Re:Flaws by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-09 03:36 · Score: -1, Redundant
  
  Because it's been said before ad infinitum?
  
  (as has this, so please mod this down too).
Proof of concept by patio11 · 2005-09-09 03:28 · Score: 1, Redundant

Don't click me, I will crash your browser session!

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Re:Expose users? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-09 04:10 · Score: -1, Redundant

What did your mom and your sister think of Firefox? Better than IE?