gHacks technology news » firefox bu http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:38:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Latest Firefox Web Browser Vulnerable to 0-Day Exploit http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/26/latest-firefox-web-browser-vulnerable-to-0-day-exploit/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/26/latest-firefox-web-browser-vulnerable-to-0-day-exploit/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:32:58 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/26/latest-firefox-web-browser-vulnerable-to-0-day-exploit/ Dante send me a tip about a 0-day exploit that is affecting the latest versions of the popular Firefox web browser. The exploit is described as a remote memory-corruption vulnerability that is affecting Firefox running on all supported operating systems. A proof of concept has been published by the security researcher and the Mozilla team has acknowledged the existence and announced plans to rush a Firefox 3.0.8 update at the beginning of next week.

The Firefox exploit could be used to add software to the target system without the knowledge of the users. There is currently no solution to block this attack from being executed other than being very careful about the visited websites. The safest would be to switch to another web browser at least for the time until the Mozilla developers have published the update that fixes the vulnerability in the web browser or a hot fix becomes known.

The issue has already been fixed according to the bug report that was filed at the Mozilla website and is now awaiting verification.

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