Mozilla Flaw Lets Links Run Arbitrary Programs
With all the IE bashing going on recently, a flaw has been discovered in one of its competitor's browsers. The flaw affects both Mozilla and Firefox:
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Originally Posted by eWeek
...reports indicate that links in a Web page using the "shell:" scheme can execute arbitrary programs on the user's system. The attacker would have to know the location in the file system of the program, but there are known programs in Windows with buffer overflows.
This is indeed a bit of a blow for the praised Mozilla browsers. On the plus side, however, a fix is already available. Get it here. It's good to know that even when such bugs are found, they are fixed promptly.
Find the full article on eWeek.
So guys, what do you all make of this?