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Mozilla Beats Back Firefox Security Concerns

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 21, 2005

PC Pro: Mozilla Fixes Firefox Flaw with Version 1.0.7

“The Mozilla organisation has released Firefox 1.0.7 which
addresses several security flaws, including an extremely critical
vulnerability recently discovered in the Linux version.

“The Firefox Command Line URL Shell Command Injection
vulnerability can be exploited to execute arbitrary shell commands
by tricking a user into following a malicious link in an external
application which uses Firefox as the default browser…”


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SC Magazine: Mozilla Nightmare Continues as Site Hit by
Hackers

“Not-for-profit software group Mozilla has been hit by hackers
downloading infected source code onto its website.

“According to antivirus company Kaspersky, Korean distributions
for Mozilla and Thunderbird for linux were infected with viruses
until removed in the last week…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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