Security metrics are very difficult to do well, and easy to do poorly. For example, take a look at the recent Secunia “2008 Report” (http://secunia.com/gfx/Secunia2008Report.pdf). It tries to break down … Read more
Issue Researchers have recently found weaknesses in the MD5 hash algorithm, relied on by some SSL certificates. Using these weaknesses, an attacker could obtain fraudulent SSL certificates for websites they … Read more
There has been some interest in the last few days about a recent report from a company called Bit9 about application vulnerabilities. While we’re always happy to see stories that … Read more
Issue A malicious piece of software masquerading as a legitimate and popular Firefox plugin is spreading. Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A collects a user’s passwords from banking and other sites and forwards them to … Read more
Issue A null pointer dereference in the content layout component of Firefox allows an attacker to crash the browser when a user navigates to a malicious page. Impact If a … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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. … Read more
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. … Read more