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Vulnerability In Firefox Popup Blocker

Posted by kdawson on from the all-your-files dept.

cj writes in with news of a vulnerability in Firefox's stock popup blocker discovered by Michal Zalewski. The vulnerability can allow a malicious user to read files from an affected system. The attacker would "need to plant a predictably named file with exploit code on the target system. This sounds hard, but isn't," according to the article.

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  1. Re:Right... by pairo · · Score: 5, Funny

    That was quite possibly the most ignorant statement I have read on slashdot recently.
    You don't really read much of Slashdot, do you?