Security flaw in Windows Firefox, Mozilla and Thunderbird

Postby **shooraijin** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 4:20 pm

http://www.mozilla.org/security/shell.html

This does not affect Linux or Macintosh users. I don't have any reports of this being exploited in the wild, but it's so easy to install that I'd recommend any users of these browsers do so.

Postby **madphilb** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:32 pm

Let's see... that's 1 for Mozilla based browsers.... how many for IE?

Postby **Bobtheduck** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:36 pm

One question... Maybe I'm being paranoid (afterall, it is from Mozilla's website) but why is the patch unsigned if they made it themselves?

Postby **blkmage** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:46 pm

That didn't take them long to fix, unlike the Evil one.

Postby **uc pseudonym** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:55 pm

Mozilla itself was unsigned when I downloaded it... which is odd. No computer crashing viruses yet.

I will have to do this on my grandmother's computer. She did want a safer internet connection...

Postby **Mithrandir** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 6:56 am

It takes to long to sign stuff. You have to get it 'approved' by Microsoft.

Anyway, sorry I didn't post this when I first heard about it. Lastweek...

Postby **shooraijin** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 5:01 pm

> but why is the patch unsigned if they made it themselves?

Good question; I don't know why. That does seem a rather silly oversight.

Security flaw in Windows Firefox, Mozilla and Thunderbird

Security flaw in Windows Firefox, Mozilla and Thunderbird

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