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8 Vulnerabilities Discovered In Firefox/Mozilla

Wednesday, Mar. 2 2005 | Author: jeremy

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Today, the security firm Secunia has released 8 more security bugs it has discovered in Mozilla products, including Firefox and Thunderbird.

If you have downloaded the Firefox 1.0.1 update, you have nothing to worry about. The Mozilla 1.7.6 and Thunderbird 1.0.1 released should be out this week as well. The exploits “could be used by criminals to spoof, or fake, various aspects of a Web site, ranging from its SSL secure site icon to the contents of an inactive tab.”

This announcement comes 1 day after iDefense announced a vulnerability is Mozilla 1.7.3 and Firefox 1.0 that would allows hackers to “create a memory heap overflow, which then allow remote code execution and a compromise of the system.”

In other Firefox news, Asa has been covering the rollout of automatic updating by the Firefox crew for updating to 1.0.1.

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11 Responses for "8 Vulnerabilities Discovered In Firefox/Mozilla"

Stuart

March 2nd, 2005 at 8:33 pm
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Hi. Actually, I don’t think Secunia discovered these. The TechWeb article was a bit misleading in that respect.

The original Mozilla advisories are available at:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/

Stuart
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March 3rd, 2005 at 12:46 am
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I can’t wait for firefox 1.0.2 to come out to fix the next round of Vulnerabilities to be fix. And Remember Use Tootie!!
The Phantom

March 3rd, 2005 at 2:29 am
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Wal, fook mah pook!
Mr_l33t

March 3rd, 2005 at 3:19 am
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Haha! I’ll bet Micro$oft is funding a project to find and expose as many bugs in FireFox as possible. With Firefox taking almost 10% market share now, they have something to worry about. Fortunately, all the fanatics will help out to make it FireFox even better! Do your worst ;-)
Adam Lyttle

March 3rd, 2005 at 3:22 am
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http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/02/2314234&tid=154&tid=172

Your article appeared on the front page of Slashdot this afternoon.
abcdefg

March 3rd, 2005 at 12:05 pm
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wat tho fok?
Scary Mind

March 4th, 2005 at 1:26 am
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Mr l33t yes it’s all a microsoft conspiracy isn’t it. Now that firefox is gaining in user acceptance expect more exploits to be discovered and exploited.

And the reason why safari and opera don’t have documented exploits is …. market share.
betterpc

March 6th, 2005 at 3:45 pm
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It can be fixed on FireFox:

http://users-guide.org/index.php?c=text&id=82
phoenix

March 8th, 2005 at 11:55 am
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Actually, it would behoove M$ to try to take out their competition early. That’s more than just hardball business tactics, that’s the way they’ve operated in the past. So while Mr 3l3t was clearly being humorous, there’s a serious underside to it all. Knowing of the Halloween documents, and all the times M$ has ripped off customer information makes me suspicious of them. You’d be foolish to not watch your back where they are concerned.
biz4two

March 21st, 2005 at 4:13 pm
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Goes to show that sticking with MS isn’t all that bad. I do not agree that MS is trying to take out FireFox, just a few loyal MS crackers making waves. Remember…MS does have a loyal following too.
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March 31st, 2006 at 3:08 am
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