OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-10 Thread Jonathan Kaye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The BBC website is now carrying a story about an alleged security vulnerability of Firefox. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4532127.stm I checked on the "From other news sites" section of the article for possible sources and found this. http://sof

Re: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-10 Thread Kent West
Jonathan Kaye wrote: > The BBC website is now carrying a story about an alleged security > vulnerability of Firefox. > I've just has a look around the Mozilla Firefox site and can't find > anything about it; Front page of http://www.mozilla.org, the May 8 Security Advisory link, takes you to

Re: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-10 Thread [KS]
Jonathan Kaye wrote: > The BBC website is now carrying a story about an alleged security > vulnerability of Firefox. > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4532127.stm > I checked on the "From other news sites" section of the article for > possible sources and found this. > http://software.silicon

Re: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-10 Thread David Burgess
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 18:47 -0400, [KS] wrote: > Here is the official security advisory link from mozilla.org > http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-42.html > > You should be fine as long as you haven't added any website to the > whitelist to install software except the official upda

Re: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-10 Thread Gerhard Gaußling
Am Dienstag 10 Mai 2005 21:42 schrieb Jonathan Kaye: > "Mozilla has changed its update web service and advises people to > temporarily disable JavaScript." Is there a "One-button One-click method" to switch javascript-support from on to off and vice versa? I often wished that feature. regards Ge

Re: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-10 Thread [KS]
David Burgess wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 18:47 -0400, [KS] wrote: > > >>Here is the official security advisory link from mozilla.org >>http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-42.html >> >>You should be fine as long as you haven't added any website to the >>whitelist to install softw

RE: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-10 Thread james derry
Title: RE: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine? yes, the vulnerabilities exist and the new candidate builds have been released: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/008121.html -Original Message- From: [KS] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tue 5/10/2005 5:47 PM To

Re: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-10 Thread Jonathan Kaye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La Jonathan Kaye ha escrit, a 10/05/05 21:42: | The BBC website is now carrying a story about an alleged security | vulnerability of Firefox. | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4532127.stm | I checked on the "From other news sites" section of th

Re: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-11 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 21:42, Tue 10 May 05, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > The BBC website is now carrying a story about an alleged security > vulnerability of Firefox. > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4532127.stm > I checked on the "From other news sites" section o

Re: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-11 Thread Michael Z Daryabeygi
Gnu-Raiz wrote: Mozilla has already had a fix for it, check your local sites, Firefox 1.04 rc is now out. Some claim it as a RC but I assume they will push this pretty fast. well it doesn't show up in the auto-notify for updates yet... I agree with the poster that said it should be on the firefox

Re: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-11 Thread Jon Dowland
Jonathan Kaye wrote: 2. If you go to the Security Advisory 2005-42 page and look at the workaround, the first 2 procedures (Select the "Options" dialog from the "Tools" menu, etc.) are certainly not for the Linux version of Firefox I noticed this too. However it didn't take much thinking around to

OT Enable/Disable Javascript in Firefox [Was: Re: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?]

2005-05-10 Thread Colin Ingram
Gerhard Gaußling wrote: Is there a "One-button One-click method" to switch javascript-support from on to off and vice versa? I often wished that feature. Try the PrefBar 3.1.0 extension*. ** Author:* Aaron Anderson *Version:* 3.1.0 *Size:* 167KB *Date:* 2004-02-08 *Compatibility:* ( 0.9 - 1.0+)