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Critical Firefox Exploits - How fast can they fix it...

Rikİ
Again 2 critical vulnerabilities where discovered/made public last weekend.
Critical because there's no patch yet.... a workaround is to disable javascript...

This will be a nice test...
How fast can they fix it?

Greetz,
Rikİ

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Rikİ
Oops... forgot to post some usefull links....

ZDnet news -> Exploit code chases two Firefox flaws

mozillaZine article -> Mozilla Arbitrary Code Execution Security Flaw

Security Advisory 2005-42

Greetz,
Rikİ


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Luigi
Cheers for the information regarding these Mozilla Firefox updates.

It is really good to see that Mozilla are constantly releasing these types of updates to help make browsing the internet safer for all of us that use Mozilla browsers.

Keep up the good work mozilla. biggrin.gif

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Luigi
Sorry, just realised my error, i didn't read the topic correctly.

I hope mozilla release updates quickly to solve this problem. tongue.gif

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moldboy
What I found even more intresting, and although I am a little sceptical is that mozilla was attempting to keep the bug under wraps until they developed a fix, after all the problem with these things is now that you then end user know about it, so does every bad guy!

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Odyssey
I aint too worried about the patches for Firefox considering I already have a good firewall protecting other prople from hacking me. But I do hope that Mozilla comes out with an update very soon though :S

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mizako
Lately appear a lot of Firefox'flaws in Internet magazines. I guess IE is getting worried about such a tough concurrence and maybe they are trying to damage the Firefox image. But it is good that Firefox is under attack. The most it is attack the safer it will be.

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Tyssen
QUOTE(moldboy @ May 10 2005, 12:57 PM)
What I found even more intresting, and although I am a little sceptical is that mozilla was attempting to keep the bug under wraps until they developed a fix


That's what it says in their security bugs policy so it's not as if they've been trying to hide anything and when you think about it, it makes more sense to try & resolve a bug before it becomes widely reported because then there's less chance of unscrupulous characters taking advantage of it and using it for malicious purposes.

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Rikİ
QUOTE(Rikİ @ May 9 2005, 08:25 PM)
Again 2 critical vulnerabilities where discovered/made public last weekend.
Critical because there's no patch yet.... a workaround is to disable javascript...

This will be a nice test...
How fast can they fix it?

Greetz,
Rikİ
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A new version has been released... v1.0.4
It took them 3 days to fix... not bad cool.gif

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melkonianarg
yes quick fixing times eh, microsoft would have taken 2 weeks to release something but then again, they would not have told everyone about it aswell...formaly...! (hehe)

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cragllo
You have to realise, that Firefox is nowhere as bad as Internet Explorer, and it will take the FireFox team a month at the latest to fix it, but it would take Microsoft a few years to fix tongue.gif

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icemarle
I installed it, and after that, something strange happened. I can't access my Gmail account. All I see is, Loading... and then, I look at the bottom, it says "Done" and nothing shows up. It didn't happen before I updated it. Should I degrade it? dry.gif (I don't like saying Downgrade)

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Rikİ
QUOTE(icemarle @ May 13 2005, 02:56 AM)
That's scary. Now I'm afraid to go other sites with Firefox. 0_o Hopefully Mozilla does it as soon as they can. Security threats are just awful.
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Mozilla released a security update May 11 .... Firefox 1.0.4

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karlo
i think it has been fixed. many developers are working in firefox, and i think many of those exploits have been fixed by now.

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Saint_Michael
hahaha i told people that its lame but the patch is up so have fire hahahahaha

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