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Firefox 3 Vulnerability Found

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Source: linuxworld - Posted by Bill Keys

Five hours after Mozilla officially released Firefox 3.0, researchers found a vulnerability in the new browser.Tipping Point has verified the bug and reported it to Mozilla, Tipping Point said on Wednesday.Since Mozilla is still working on a fix, the researchers won't share details about the problem. Tipping Point ranked the severity of the vulnerability as high, but said that users would have to click on a link in an e-mail or visit a malicious Web page before being affected. The issue affects users of Firefox 3.0 as well as Firefox 2.0. Wow, that was quick in only five hours a security vulnerability was found. I find it a little strange that a vulnerability was found that is said to effect Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 2.0 was not found earlier. What do you think about this latest released vulnerability to Firefox?

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Waiting for FF3 is lame...

Written by Smokezz on 2008-06-19 08:49:06

Nothing like waiting for the release of Firefox 3.0 to release the vulnerability to get more attention for yourself.

5 hours?

Written by cbrp1r8 on 2008-06-19 11:07:46

To me this either seems to be, MS driven anti-hype, or since they are part of zero day initiative, someone was just holding onto the sploit in anticipation of making a buck.

Either way I thought it was kinda cool that they are getting into the Guiness Book of Recores for most software downloads in a day (8 million).

Systems Administrator

Written by Jason Lowmiller on 2008-06-21 18:02:46

Ya, they probably found the issue in beta and waited to see if the problem was still an issue when the team decided to release.

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