February 09, 2008

Latest Firefox Version Has a Little Problem

Slashdot | Serious Vulnerability In Firefox 2.0.0.12

“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.”

Posted by Michael : February 9, 2008 09:20 PM | Software | TechnoLinks
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Comments

Actually, this information is likely to be inaccurate. See:

http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/02/10/view-sourceresource-vulnerability-does-not-expose-personal-information/

Posted by: Fred at February 10, 2008 05:57 PM

thanks Fred for the Link. It was very helpful

Posted by: Presse at February 12, 2008 08:12 AM

Thanks! You guys just saved me a couple of hours of work.

Posted by: Webdesign Hamburg at April 30, 2008 05:59 PM

Thanks for this article.

Posted by: Mario Brothers at May 5, 2008 02:19 PM


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