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Firefox exploit targets zero day vulns
John Leyden, The Register 2005-05-09

Security researchers have discovered two unpatched vulnerabilities in Firefox, the popular alternative web browser. The security bugs affect even the latest version of Firefox (version 1.0.3) and create a means for attackers to seize control of vulnerable systems using cross-site scripting attacks.

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Firefox exploit targets zero day vulns 2005-05-10
Anonymous
Read the vulnerability description. "Executes code under user perms". Pretty common for most application vulns. Quite a bit different than 'executes perms as activex admin user' or 'executes arbitrary code under IE that is tied into the rest of the operating system'. Vulnerbilities are vulnerabilite...

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