CNET News: Hackers Claim Zero-Day Flaw in Firefox

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 2, 2006

“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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Web Webster

Web Webster

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