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RCAF_MadDog · ***Janitor*** Offline Joined: Nov 13, 2004 Posts: 849

The Mozilla Foundation issued a patch for a major security flaw in its Firefox browser on Wednesday and advised people to update their software.

The problem is caused by a buffer overflow in legacy Netscape code still included in the browser for animating GIF images, Chris Hofmann, director of engineering for Mozilla, said. Similar memory problems have affected Mozilla's browsers and Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the past. A malicious attacker could exploit them by creating carefully crafted image files that, when viewed by a victim in a browser, execute a program and compromise the system.

Read more here!!
news.zdnet.com/2100-10...ag=nl.e589

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Shadow_Bshwackr

Thanks Dog and I've updated all my machines...:wink:

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