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Serious Vulnerability In Firefox 2.0.0.12

Posted by kdawson on from the that-was-quick dept.

Oh, Not Now writes "Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12, mere hours old, is vulnerable by default to a directory traversal trick, via the view-source mechanism. Although mitigated by the NoScript plug-in, this is quite a serious bug — the default installation is vulnerable from the get-go."

3 of 355 comments (clear)

  1. Re:saved passwords by Nazlfrag · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's this thing called carbon-based memory I use from time to time. Efficient, portable, unfortunately it is easily broken by Johnny Walker and co.

  2. Re:NoScript by milsoRgen · · Score: 4, Funny

    On a similar note, I would not mind integration of Adblock Plus. Shhhhh! Once sites learn more and more people are blocking ads, they are going to move on to an even more insidious manner to deliver screaming, moving obnoxious hobbknobbery to our computers...
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    I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask where they're goin' and hook up with 'em later.
  3. Amazing coincidence by GlobalEcho · · Score: 4, Funny

    The browser can present to me a list of script functions and fragments, each with a "allow", "deny", or "remap" option. What an amazing coincidence! My grandmother, my boss and my brother's girlfriend were all wishing out loud for that very feature just yesterday! We'll all be secure in no time!