Mozillahas fixed two critical flaws
in its
Firefox browser, two weeks after security researchers first
started posting code that showed how the flaws could be exploited
in attacks. The flaws allowedInternet Explorerto parse data
through to Firefox which would then launch programs without
authorisation.
Microsoft and Mozilla were at odds over who was to blame.
Mozilla had insisted that the exploits would not work on Firefox
alone. However, last week Mozilla's security chief Window Snyder
conceded that she had been wrong. "We thought this was just a
problem with IE. It turns out, it is a problem with Firefox as
well," she said in a blog posting. "We should have caught this
scenario."
Critical Firefox security flaws addressed by Mozilla
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