Firefox lead engineer posts Netscape 8 exploit

Posted by VISITOR on May 20, 2005 8:37 AM EDT
ZDNet Australia; By Renai LeMay 		Mail this story
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Just one day after Netscape 8 was released, Firefox lead engineer Ben Goodger has posted a live exploit for the browser. The exploit - which reveals a user's Google cookie - is possible because Netscape 8 is based on Firefox 1.0.3 - which has been updated to 1.0.4 because of two serious vulnerabilities.

The irony of all this, as several other Firefox developers are noting, is that Netscape's home page is notifying those using Firefox 1.0.4 and above that their browser is not secure and they should update to Netscape 8.

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