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Jay H 237
09-05-2005, 16:20
I just ran across this article (http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/120756) and wanted to share it because many people on here use Firefox.
Ryan M.
09-05-2005, 16:49
Um... broken link? :(

--EDIT--
Use this: http://www.techspot.com/story17559.html
Cory
09-05-2005, 16:53
Um... broken link? :(

--EDIT--
Use this: http://www.techspot.com/story17559.html

It works just fine for me.
Ryan M.
09-05-2005, 16:57
Hm... works for me now too. Odd. I even tried it twice.

Thanks for the warning, Jay! :)
UrsaMNet
09-05-2005, 21:18
This is something to worry about for the moment, but what has made Firefox so popular (among other things) is that what few problems exist are fixed a very timely fashion courtesy of hard working open source programmers world wide!

In short, It won't last :)
Denman
10-05-2005, 08:06
/me loads up ie for a little while
artdutra04
12-05-2005, 15:54
The Firefox patch (http://www.mozilla.com/products/firefox/) is out now to fix these security issues. Phew, now I can go back to Firefox! :D
Katie Reynolds
12-05-2005, 15:57
The Firefox patch (http://www.mozilla.com/products/firefox/) is out now to fix these security issues. Phew, now I can go back to Firefox! :DYay!

From: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html

Fixed in Firefox 1.0.4
MFSA 2005-44 Privilege escalation via non-DOM property overrides
MFSA 2005-43 "Wrapped" javascript: urls bypass security checks
MFSA 2005-42 Code execution via javascript: IconURL