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Issue A vulnerability in the way Firefox handles CSS allows an attacker to take advantage of an integer overflow and execute arbitrary code. In order for the attack to be successful a user must browse to a malicious site. The … Continue reading
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Mozilla has been working with security researcher and analyst Rich Mogull for a few months now on a project to develop a metrics model to measure the relative security of Firefox over time. We are trying to develop a model … Continue reading
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A recent report identified Firefox users as most likely to be running the latest version of the browser at any point in time. Brian Krebs at the Washington Post comments on it here: Forty Percent of Web Users Surf With … Continue reading
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TippingPoint ZDI notified Mozilla of a vulnerability in Firefox that impacts versions 2.x and 3.0. This issue is currently under investigation. To protect our users, the details of the issue will remain closed until a patch is made available. There … Continue reading
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As today’s headlines confirm, there is still a lot of confusion about what happened to the Vietnamese language pack, who is impacted, and what that impact really is. First of all, there is no virus in the Vietnamese language pack. … Continue reading
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The Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 contains inserted code to load remote content. This code is the result of a virus infection, but does not contain the virus itself. This usually results in the user seeing unwanted ads, but … Continue reading
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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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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
