{"id":593,"date":"2007-07-10T23:56:44","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T21:56:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-10T23:56:44","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T21:56:44","slug":"firefox-users-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/593-firefox-users-beware.html","title":{"rendered":"Firefox users beware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the website <a href=\"http:\/\/secunia.com\/advisories\/25984\/\" target=\"_blank\">Secunia<\/a> the Firefox vulnerability be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user&#39;s system. <\/p>\n<p>A successful attack requires an Internet user to click on an unsafe link which is generally achieved through either a malicious website or an HTML email.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The problem is that Firefox registers the &quot;firefoxurl:\/\/&quot; URI handler and allows invoking firefox with arbitrary command line arguments. Using e.g. the &quot;-chrome&quot; parameter it is possible to execute arbitrary Javascript in chrome context,&rdquo; the Secunia website states.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands e.g. when a user visits a malicious web site using Microsoft Internet Explorer.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to Secunia the vulnerability is confirmed in Firefox version 2.0.0.4 on a fully patched Windows XP SP2. Other versions may also be affected.<\/p>\n<p>Users are advised to steer clear of unknown and untrusted websites and disable the &quot;Firefox URL&quot; URI handler.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mozilla developing a fix<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was initially some confusion as to which browser &ndash; IE or Firefox &ndash; was vulnerable to attack, but the Secunia CTO Thomas Kristensen pointed out that &ldquo;this is in fact NOT an IE issue &#8211; it is a Firefox issue.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to ZDNet&rsquo;s Ryan Naraine blog Mozilla security chief Window Snyder said that they [Mozilla] &ldquo;are aware of this issue and we are developing a fix. Mozilla is committed to delivering the safest online experience for its users.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox users who are also using Internet Explorer are at risk of a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchighly critical\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 vulnerability which can be exploited by malicious people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}