 Status Bar Spoofing In Firefox |
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 Mar 15 2005, 05:46 PM
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Newbie [Level 2]  Group: Members Posts: 30 Joined: 7-March 05 From: The Netherlands Member No.: 4,240  |
Hi
 Now that Firefox get's more popular each day people find more 'bugs'  The next vulnerability was reported yesterday on SecurityTracker.com: QUOTE A spoofing vulnerability was reported in Firefox. A remote user can create HTML that, in certain cases, will spoof the status bar. A remote user can create HTML with an A HREF link in a table, where the table is embedded within an A HREF tag. If the target user selects to save the spoofed link using the "Save Link As" feature, arbitrary content will be saved to the target user's system. http://securitytracker.com/id?1013423 I wonder when mozilla will release v1.0.2 Greetz, Rik© |
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Mar 16 2005, 03:27 AM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 661 Joined: 10-January 05 Member No.: 3,189 |
Yes! As I devout Interent Expolrer user, (Well, I used FireFox for 4 weeks), I'm happy that another secutiry flaw is found in FireFox. EVeryone that uses firefox has a false sense of secuirty that Fireox is 100% fail safe and that Internet Explorere sucks. What's really casuing the problem is not IE's coding, but rather the popularity of it. Whatever is the most popular, hackers wil target that, as firefox gets more popular, it will get more and more flaws.
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Mar 16 2005, 07:46 AM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 512 Joined: 26-September 04 From: Googland Member No.: 1,278 |
I totally agree with whyme and also the spirit behind Rik's post, when he says that 'Now that Firefox get's more popular each day people find more bugs'.
The main disadvantage of IE is that it is popular and people will try to bring it down. Now that Firefox is catching up, they won't even spare it. However, being open source, it is more open for such attacks, and on the contrary also more likely that such bugs will be fixed very soon... |
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Mar 16 2005, 03:21 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 324 Joined: 23-January 05 From: India Member No.: 3,388 |
Yeah thanks for this thread.actually as many users will help them locate errors and bugs that browser will improve much with its user experience.and best of all the browser is free and works on various os's.
anyway if you more security tracking sites pls post them here. |
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Mar 16 2005, 06:45 PM
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**removed link** Group: Members Posts: 180 Joined: 21-July 04 From: I Don't Know Member No.: 162 |
Lets face it the only way to totaly protect you computer is take out our modem, cd drive, floppy drive, and usb ports. IE Or Firefox Can And Will Be Attacked.
And also while we are one the issue of false security apple computers are not safer than windows. It is that there are not that many mac users ( however there numbers are growing) out there so they have less people creating viruses for them. When the number of users grow the more attacks you will have. Thanks Eric Drinkard Aslo just for the records. I own a windows and a mac computer |
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Mar 16 2005, 11:36 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 240 Joined: 11-October 04 From: California Member No.: 1,683 |
Well, at least using firefox means that one is safe from the massive ammount of exploits that already exist for IE. Since this is a open-source project, chances are that fixes will be released faster than what MS can do.
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Mar 22 2005, 10:11 PM
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Member [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 57 Joined: 29-January 05 From: US Member No.: 3,484 |
Hmm, i cannot reproduce the problem with there example code. Can anyone else get it to work? When I click the link, the browser goes right to www.mozilla.org like its supposed to. Does 1.0.1 fix this problem?
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Apr 12 2005, 02:03 AM
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Lets face it the only way to totaly protect you computer is take out our modem, cd drive, floppy drive, and usb ports. IE Or Firefox Can And Will Be Attacked.
And also while we are one the issue of false security apple computers are not safer than windows. It is that there are not that many mac users ( however there numbers are growing) out there so they have less people creating viruses for them. When the number of users grow the more attacks you will have. Thanks Eric Drinkard Aslo just for the records. I own a windows and a mac computer |
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Apr 12 2005, 03:14 AM
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Super Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 225 Joined: 8-April 05 Member No.: 5,385 |
I would just like to add to this that ric said "I wonder when mozilla will release v1.0.2", but I have Firefox v1.0.2... Screenshot of my about page is here. It is possible that his post (Mar 15 2005, 11:46 AM) was before Firefox 1.0.2 came out, but I don't think so because I thought I've had Firefox for over a month. Well anyways I support Firefox, but I agree that if it became as widely used as Internet Explorer, it would probably have just as many bug exploits. However, I believe the bugs would be fixed faster due to Firefox's open source'ness.
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Apr 12 2005, 03:40 AM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 186 Joined: 3-April 05 From: Wichita, KS Member No.: 5,194 |
No, I'm pretty sure that Internet Explorer is inherently inferior to Firefox
 No browser is perfect with regard to security, but Firefox comes much closer than IE. They release their source code, allowing the general public to comb it for vulnerabilities. Thanks to the devout Firefox community, these vulnerabilites are promptly reported and fixed. What does Microsoft do to protect IE from vulnerabilities? They withhold their code. IE has no active community. Microsoft finds out about IE's vulnerabilities when hackers exploit them on a large scale. And they wait entirely too long to issue patches to fix their broken software. IE allows third parties to install software on your computer without your permission, using activeX, unless they bothered to fix that gaping hole in security since I last checked. This thread is no victory for IE. It is merely a reminder of how trivial the flaws in Firefox are in comparison with the manifold susceptibilities of Internet Explorer. |