Firefox Not So Fireproof
Fellow b5′er Mary Ford writes about the black hat community finding an “unpatchable” hole in Firefox’s implementation of some javascript along with 30 more vulnerabilities. Since this is the all-so-popular Firefox, this means it’s impacting Windows, Apple and Linux OS’s.
The flaw is specific to Firefox’s implementation of JavaScript, a 10-year-old scripting language widely used on the web. In particular, various programming tricks can cause a stack overflow error, Spiegelmock said. The implementation is a “complete mess”, he said, adding: “It is impossible to patch.”
Get more details here, thanks Mary for the alert!
Tags: Apple-OS-X, Firefox, hackers, javascript, Linux, SecurityRelated Stories
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Oct 3, 2006 at 3:54 pm
[…] Until this flaw is verified and patched, it might be wise to disable javascript on untrusted sites. Technorati Tags: Firefox, javascript+flaw, black+hat, hole, Mozilla Further Reading: Microsoft Weblog October 3rd, 2006 | Permalink | No Comments » –> […]
cfJeff
Oct 3, 2006 at 4:16 pm
it will be fixed before Vista is released.
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