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Firefox 3: a bug
Post Date: Jun 20, 2008
Category: Computers
After Mozilla's near failure of a download day (their servers were essentially DDoS'd, but they did log 8 million downloads), Tipping Point reported that, five hours after the release, a bug was found. The bug was found through their Zero Day Initiative, a program that rewards researchers for responsibly reporting bugs. Tipping Point won't be releasing any information about the bug until Mozilla releases a patch, as per their vulnerability disclosure policy. The bug's severity is ranked as high, but it requires a user to click on a link in an email or go to a malicious site.

The bug affects Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 2.0.x.

Sources:
http://www.linuxworld.com…efox-3-vulnerability.html
http://dvlabs.tippingpoin…ity-in-mozilla-firefox-30
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    ɤFyrel

    Is In Your Base, Killing Your Mans

    Well, that's not good, but if it were IE having that problem people would be up in arms and proclaiming the brilliance of Firefox already. Nobody's perfect....
    06.21.08 6:59 am
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      ѻyashachan

      Never Played Half-Life

      That's quite true.

      I don't know about now, but I think at one point, people got up in arms about IE because Microsoft should be able to produce a superior product, with all the money they could put into developing it. I think maybe that's less true now because more people are comfortable with the idea of being able to get a quality product for free.

      I dunno. Those are just my vague ramblings.
      06.21.08 2:45 pm
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