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The Mozilla Foundation has issued a patch for a security vulnerability discovered Thursday in the organization's open source Mozilla Application Suite, Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client. The security flaw, known as the "shell exploit," could allow attackers to run programs on Windows XP. Users of other operating systems, including Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix variants, would not be affected by the flaw. The shell exploit can be used to send a file extension into an operating system, and Windows XP will run whichever helper application is related to the extension.
Re: Mozilla Patches Security Hole
Posted by: redwoodmantom 2004-07-12 09:18:39 In reply to: Elizabeth Millard
Ms. Millard,
These reason for the hole was an error in the Windows XP code which was suppose to have been patched in Service Pack 1 but obviously wasn't. The tone of your article and your choice of "expert" comments (Ms. Didio a Microsoft shill) leaves much in the fact checking to be desired. Please update the story and make it correct. Thank you for you time and may God bless.
Thomas F. Williams
President
Strongtower Solutions, Inc.
These reason for the hole was an error in the Windows XP code which was suppose to have been patched in Service Pack 1 but obviously wasn't. The tone of your article and your choice of "expert" comments (Ms. Didio a Microsoft shill) leaves much in the fact checking to be desired. Please update the story and make it correct. Thank you for you time and may God bless.
Thomas F. Williams
President
Strongtower Solutions, Inc.
Re: Mozilla Patches Security Hole
Posted by: beaner 2004-07-09 12:43:44 In reply to: Elizabeth Millard
Just a quick note.
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First, the "flaw" was not a Mozilla flaw per say, it was rather a Mozilla handler that allowed a Microsoft security flaw to be exploited.
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Then you kinda fail to note that it took Mozilla 1 day to plug the hole, how long did it take Microsoft to plug the latest hole again? Oh yeah...it's not really fixed yet...I forgot.
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First, the "flaw" was not a Mozilla flaw per say, it was rather a Mozilla handler that allowed a Microsoft security flaw to be exploited.
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Then you kinda fail to note that it took Mozilla 1 day to plug the hole, how long did it take Microsoft to plug the latest hole again? Oh yeah...it's not really fixed yet...I forgot.
