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| Security hole in mozilla/firefox found |
| IceDigger - Jul 9, 2004 |
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IceDigger | Jul 9, 2004 | ||
| www.mozilla.com... and update yourself to the latest version. | ||||
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Dud | Jul 9, 2004 | |||
What versions are affected by this? I have 0.9.1 | |||||
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ExCyber | Jul 9, 2004 | ||
| As far as I know, all Windows versions prior to 0.9.2 are affected, but they don't specifically say. Non-Windows systems are unaffected; this is more a problem with Windows's security model (or lack thereof) than a Firefox bug. You can grab this... to fix the problem (when using Firefox; other URL-interpreting programs probably have the same hole) instead of reinstalling; both ways simply make Firefox reject shell: URLs. | ||||
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ExCyber | Jul 13, 2004 | |||
Sure enough, it's been sighted... in Word and MSN Messenger. Microsoft's response was predictable, and can be summed up by their most famous declaration to the same effect: "That vulnerability is completely theoretical." | |||||
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CrazyGoon | Jul 13, 2004 | ||
| I'm all updated to the latest version now. Thanks for the warnings :thumbs-up: | ||||
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gameboy900 | Jul 13, 2004 | ||
| And about 6 windows updates in one day later..... | ||||
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mtxblau | Jul 14, 2004 | ||
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apt-get install -f apt-get upgrade --no-checksig If you don't have apt (for SuSE linux anyways), get it. | ||||
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antime | Aug 5, 2004 | ||
| Yet another new version (0.9.3/1.7.2/0.7.3), this time due to security problems in PNG handling. | ||||