Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 1st Oct 2006 19:45 UTC, submitted by rx182
The open-source Firefox Web browser is critically flawed in the way it handles JavaScript, two hackers said Saturday afternoon. An attacker could commandeer a computer running the browser simply by crafting a Web page that contains some malicious JavaScript code, Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi said in a presentation at the ToorCon hacker conference here. The flaw affects Firefox on Windows, Apple Computer's Mac OS X, and Linux, they said.
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2006-03-26
and them with holding that information and telling house theives that this brand of lock is easy to open is akin to aiding and abetting crimanls. Hand over the information so the Mozilla team can fix it. Don't act like a bunch of snotty teenagers and be adult about it. They are lucky or smart enough not to disclose this type of loop hole to Microsoft. They'd be in jail right now and be waiting for a interrogation with a couple of tough looking and sounding FBI agents.