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Security Protection - Harry Waldron (CS)

Security Best Practices, Breaking News, & Updates

Mozilla - Move to latest versions to protect against new Exploits

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Proof-of-concept exploits for the popular Mozilla and Firefox web browsers have been posted on public mailing lists. They target the following vulnerabilities:

- Code execution through favicons link
- Arbitrary code execution from Firefox sidebar panel

These exploits allow the attacker to run arbitrary commands on Firefox before version 1.0.3 and Mozilla before version 1.7.7.

We advice all Mozilla and Firefox users to immediately patch their browsers. Otherwise you might get nasty stuff happen on your computer just by surfing to the wrong site.

Click here: Update instructions for Firefox 1.0.3