Re: *extremely critical* notices about Firefox 1.x
From: Winged (Winged_at_nofollow.com)
Date: 05/10/05
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Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 02:18:37 -0500
DJ Code wrote:
> http://secunia.com/advisories/15292/
>
> I signed up to get these for all systems at Secunia, and
> I get a bunch of these notices every day. Mostly for
> variations of linux and linux software.
>
> But Secunia never issues security flaw findings until they've
> given the software producer time to fix it so that the user
> can apply a patch or upgrade to a more sucure product,
> and so that the use of exploits might be minimized.
>
> I don't know where to turn now for functionality! Apparently
> the open source people haven't been able to find a fix for this.
well the Mozilla site recommends turning off Javascript and don't allow
sites to update pluggins until they get problem fixed. Todays build
appear to have problem fixed and I haven't found issues yet. If this
holds through testing, I would expect 1.04 to be released in next couple
days.
Mozillas recommendations are here for problem mitigation:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/
Winged
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