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Background on this issue is available here. Impact An attacker can use this vulnerability to collect session information, including session cookies and session history. Firefox is not vulnerable by default. Only users that have installed “flat” packed add-ons are at … Continue reading
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Issue A vulnerability in the chrome protocol scheme allows directory traversal when a “flat” add-on is present resulting in potential information disclosure. Impact When a chrome package is “flat” rather than contained in a .jar the directory traversal allows escaping … Continue reading
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Secunia released a report this week that discusses a few aspects of the security landscape for 2007. Techworld ran a story based on this report with this headline: “Red Hat and Firefox more buggy than Microsoft.” While the headline is … Continue reading
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Issue The realm value in a basic authentication dialog may be spoofed by a attacker to trick users into thinking the authentication request is coming from a different, trusted site. Impact When displaying the basic authentication dialog, Firefox displays the … Continue reading
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Jeff Jones, a director of security strategy at Microsoft published a report today about counting bugs. I blogged a few months ago about why I think counting bugs is less than useful: Since all software has bugs, it’s more important … Continue reading
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Krystian Kloskowski reported a buffer overflow in QuickTime versions 7.2 and 7.3. An attacker can lure a victim to load a web page with an embedded media object or a file in an email, triggering a bounds checking error in … Continue reading
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Issue jar: protocol is not restricted to java archives and will open any zip format file. An attacker can use this to evade filtering on sites that allow users to upload content and use this initiate a cross site scripting … Continue reading
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Firefox 2.0.0.8 was released yesterday as part of our continuing efforts to improve the security of the web browser. This security update contains fixes for security issues described here and an additional mitigation for Windows URI handling security issues. Please … Continue reading
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How can Mozilla be open about security issues without exposing users to additional risk? Being open about security issues means that users have the information they need to understand their risk, that the community can contribute to the security process, … Continue reading
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Firefox 2.0.0.7 was released this afternoon to patch the QuickTime issue described here. This will protect Firefox users from the public critical security vulnerability until a patch is available from Apple. I would like to personally thank the individuals at … Continue reading