Firefox critical updates?
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Jul 31 03:39:28 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 14:35 +1200, Greg Trounson wrote:
> Does anyone here know when Firefox 1.5.0.5 is due to hit yum repositories?
>
> There's several major security updates[*] in this release, and with published exploits
> widely available it's only a matter of time before we start seeing compromised FC5 boxes.
>
> Greg
>
> * http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox1.5.0.5
I'm curious as to whether this would lead to compromised Linux boxes. I
can't read the details of those exploits, I can't see if they lead to
what are really Windows exploits done through a web browser, or
something that's cross-platform.
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