Re: Netscape upgrade

From: Chris Price (cpriceat_private)
Date: Tue Mar 16 1999 - 09:01:21 PST

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        I downloaded and installed Netscape 4.51 and I can still run the Javascript
    exploit that allows access to my harddrive...
    
        Is it just me, or does anyone else see this as a gaping security hole for
    Netscape 4.5x users......
    
        Chris
    
    Keith Young wrote:
    
    > FYI...
    >
    > Netscape has released version 4.51 of Communicator. It seems to fix the
    > window spoofing bug ( http://www.geek-girl.com/bugtraq/1999_1/0747.html ),
    > along with the javascript bugs that can be used to read local files from
    > your hard drive. I verifed this by trying the exploits at
    > http://www.whitehats.com/guninski/netscape.html
    >
    > >From their release notes page (
    > http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/4.5/relnotes/windows-4.51.html )
    >      "Fixes to improve security; in particular, the frame-spoofing
    > vulnerability problem (
    > http://home.netscape.com/products/security/resources/bugs/framespoofing.htm
    > l )has been fixed"
    >
    > You can download version 4.51 at:
    >      http://www.netscape.com/download/
    >
    > --Keith Young
    > -youngkat_private
    



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