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To: Mount Athos; Bloody Sam Roberts; demlosers; Sols; NoCmpromiz; flashbunny
Here is an explanation on the exploit dated Dec 8, 2005 (very recent) about this exploit ..

"Unpatched Firefox 1.5 exploit made public" .

The way it affected me is becuase I leave my browser open and when I came back in the morning, it was chucking down 2GB of ram.

http://news.com.com/Unpatched+Firefox+1.5+exploit+made+public/2100-1002_3-5987401.html

41 posted on 12/14/2005 6:24:03 PM PST by CometBaby (You can twist perceptions .. reality won't budge!)
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To: CometBaby

from your link:

"Correction: This story incorrectly stated the affiliation of Mike Schroepfer. It also misstated Mozilla's results in verifying the Firefox 1.5 flaw. The problem itself was not a security vulnerability but actually a flaw in the browser, according to Mozilla. In addition, it misstated PacketStorm's assessment of the situation."


42 posted on 12/14/2005 6:32:34 PM PST by flashbunny (To err is human. But to really screw something up, have the government try to fix it.)
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To: CometBaby
What you described, it looks like Firefox has a "memory leak."
43 posted on 12/14/2005 6:52:22 PM PST by demlosers
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To: CometBaby
Except that the exploit you reference is not the subject of the ZDNet article from May. Here is Mozilla's official response to the current issue:

Long-title temporary startup unresponsiveness

44 posted on 12/15/2005 5:01:46 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluaralistic statement.)
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