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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.

3 of 100 comments (clear)

  1. best hacker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Gorion, what do you think? :D

  2. Re:Is this the best they can do? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Enjoy your virii.

    You mean viruses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virii

  3. #irc.trol7talk.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the mUndane chores