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HyperLamer
Posts: 7040/8210 |
Yeah, I cringe when I hear about major FF bugs, not out of fear that I'll get infected, but to brace myself for the onslaught of "OMG FIREFOX ISNT PERFECT LOL". Nevermind IE's swiss-cheese security system, it pales in comparison to a single bug that was patched right away.  |
Nebetsu
Posts: 1409/1574 |
I hear ya FreeDOS.
I've been hearing about this. People are even wanting to go to IE because of ONE FF bug, when IE has (realistically) maybe 30 bugs that are as severe as this one. |
HyperLamer
Posts: 6999/8210 |
It means that by visiting a webpage you could have a program downloaded and executed without your knowledge.
FreeDOS, it probably would work in Linux, but nobody's going to bother writing exploit code for it. 
Leg, yeah, I forgot about that auto-update. I was teh sleepy.  |
Ran-chan
Posts: 11573/12781 |
I donĀ“t really know what that code execution does but thanks anyway.
I fixed it.  |
Surlent
Posts: 1046/1077 |
Doesn't affect Deer Park Alpha 2 since it is a beta and has not the auto-update feature included, but I'm updating Mozilla Firefox - at least the developers react faster on security leaks than a major company (yes, I use Windows XP, but with my operating system I am really satisfied aside from the integrated browser). |
FreeDOS
Posts: 1580/1657 |
So it only affects Windows users it seems.  Good thing I'm not using that OS anymore. |
Colin
Posts: 10445/11302 |
A lot of people on this board do but not everyone.
My guess is that Firefox Update will pick it up soon anyways. Maybe one quick bugfix release before 1.5. |
Yoshi Dude
Posts: 2980/3271 |
I thought a lot of people used Firefox.. 
I wouldn't have known about this had it not been posted in General Chat. Don't we make exceptions for warnings like this?
Thanks for the heads up HyperHacker. |
Legion
Posts: 5230/5657 |
Most people use IE though but even if they didn't, this still would go in Hardware/Software. |
HyperLamer
Posts: 6993/8210 |
Thought I should post this here, since we have a lot of FF users. Mozilla has just released a fix for a critical flaw that allows code execution in Mozilla, including Firefox. More information is avaiable here. To fix it you can either download the patch or just disable IDN:
Copied from Mozilla website
1. Type about:config into the address field and hit Enter.
2. In the Filter toolbar, type network.enableIDN.
3. Right click on the the network.enableIDN item and select toggle to change value to false.
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