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Unpatched Firefox 1.5 Exploit Made Public

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the caught-with-you-pants-down dept.

ThatGuyGreg writes "C|Net is reporting that an unpatched exploit in Firefox 1.5 has been made public, making it very easy for ne'er-do-well-sites to cause your browser to crash on startup with a single visit. Until a patch is released, it is recommended that you disable your history.dat file."

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  1. IE's execution of arbitrary code by Dreadlord · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Before someone starts saying Firefox is vulnerable to exploits just as IE, this exploits crashes the browser and only that, now compare this to IE's execution of arbitrary code.

    No software is perfect, but still, Firefox is clearly ahead.

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  2. Re:FC4, 1.5 by FoXDie · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Go to http://www.apple.com/ipod/features.html and tell me if I'm the only one that has Firefox crash from that page without fail, since the upgrade to 1.5

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