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Gaping Holes In Fully Patched IE7, Firefox 2

Posted by kdawson on from the just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe dept.

Continent1106 writes "Hacker Michal Zalewski has ratcheted up his ongoing assault on Web browser security models, releasing details on serious flaws in fully patched versions of IE6, IE7 and Firefox 2.0. The vulnerabilities could cause cookie stealing, page hijacking, memory corruption, code execution, and URL bar spoofing attacks." Here is Zalewski's post to Full Disclosure.

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  1. Gaping holes? by Paktu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Article tagged as goatse.

  2. Sounds like Terrorist to me. by 3seas · · Score: 5, Funny

    cookie STEALING, page HIJACKING, memory CORRUPTION, code EXECUTION, and URL bar spoofing ATTACKS.

    So where the fuck is home land security when you need them.

    1. Re:Sounds like Terrorist to me. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      what's so terrible about urls?

  3. AND LYNX! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No holes for Lynx? Oh well...
    (sits back with biggest grin on face)

  4. Re:Ah well by Kelson · · Score: 5, Funny

    I use wget.

    You have not truly experienced the web until you have experienced it using telnet to port 80.

  5. No holes? by Kelson · · Score: 5, Funny

    No holes for Opera?

    Are you serious? Have you looked at that icon? There's a huge hole right in the middle, and no one seems to acknowledge it!