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Firefox Vulnerable To 7-Year-Old Bug | |
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| Time: 16:36 EST/21:36 GMT | News Source: CRN | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner | ||
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Mozilla's current browsers, including the popular stand-alone Firefox, are susceptible, again, to a seven-year-old vulnerability that could let attackers spoof Web sites, a security company said Monday. According to Danish security firm Secunia, Mozilla 1.7.x and Firefox 1.x are vulnerable to a frame injection flaw that first surfaced in 1998. Hackers could exploit the bug to insert their own content into the view of a legitimate site, to, for instance, pose as the log-in frame, then collect usernames and passwords to online bank accounts. "The flaw means that if you are viewing a trusted site in one window (PayPal or your bank) and open a site belonging to a spoofer in another window, the spoofer can insert code in the window showing the trusted site," wrote a moderator on Mozilla's online forum Monday. | ||
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| #1 By 2332 (204.9.221.59) at 6/6/2005 4:51:59 PM |
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As Firefox gets more popular it will be exposed as just as insecure as Internet Explorer.
Is that due to bad programming? Maybe, but no worse than IE's coding. The fact of the matter is that popular software will always have more holes found because more people are looking for them. |
| #2 By 32132 (206.116.136.250) at 6/6/2005 6:00:50 PM |
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How can this be. Firefox is brand new code. Isn't it?
One other question. Did Ben Goodger write this exploit? |
| #3 By 61 (65.32.175.192) at 6/6/2005 6:02:18 PM |
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Firefox is based off of Mozilla (it is Mozilla w/o the extra apps), which still has Netscape 4 code in it.
Not to mention that just because code is newer than an exploit doesn't mean it's not going to be vulnerable. |
| #4 By 61 (65.32.175.192) at 6/6/2005 6:02:47 PM |
| I fucking hate that stupid ad with "Kill Shao Kahn". |
| #5 By 12071 (203.185.215.149) at 6/6/2005 11:08:27 PM |
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#1 All the browsers were affected by this 7-year old bug last year, i.e.
IE - http://secunia.com/advisories/11966/ Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, Konqueror, Safari, Camino - http://secunia.com/advisories/11978/ The important part of this is which shmuck reintroduced this bug between v0.9 and v1.0.4? |
| #6 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 6/7/2005 8:47:11 AM |
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CPUGuy,
I feel your pain... TL |
| #7 By 32132 (206.116.136.250) at 6/7/2005 10:35:07 AM |
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"The important part of this is which shmuck reintroduced this bug between v0.9 and v1.0.4? "
Ben Goodger. He heard Netscape 8 was going to use the insecure peice of crap known as Firefox 1.03 as the basis for Netscape 8, so he reintroduced a whole bunch of bugs into it. His plan was to trickle them out and badmouth Netscape at every turn ... because now that he sold out to Google, he doesn't really believe in open source anymore. Its all about the benjamins! |
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