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Old 01-15-2005, 09:59 PM   #9
LennonCook
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Quote:
Originally posted by shamrock_uk:
Have another three whilst there's a thread open about it:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/07/mozilla_flaws/

There's always Opera
Ok, now I've had time to read that article...
Of the three vulnerabilities listed there,
The first is fixed in Seamonkey 1.7.5 , and seems to be atleast partially (if not completely - the article is unclear on that) fixed in Firefox 1.0 (and will be fully fixed in 1.1 in March if it isn't already).

The second one is nothing new, infact the same vulnerability mentioned in the first post (meaning, it's not "another three", but at most "another two").

The last one is just silly.
It says, quite simply, that other people can read Firefox's files. Other people can read your word documents, too. Other people can look at any images you make in GIMP or Photoshop. If you don't want that to be the case, the solution is to set the permissions on those files, not to put them in a different format.

In other words, the first is fixed; the second is redundant; and the third isn't Firefox's problem.
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