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Old 02-24-2007, 09:31 PM   #1
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LXer: Mozilla patches major Firefox security flaw


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Mozilla Corp. today released updated versions of the Firefox browser, v1.5.0.10 and v2.0.0.2, for Windows, Mac, and Linux, that close a major security flaw called the "location.hostname vulnerability." The fix stops hackers from being able to tamper with how websites are displayed.

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Old 02-24-2007, 10:00 PM   #2
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Sweet Firefox updated Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070220 Firefox/2.0.0.2

Now to wait on Debian to update Iceweasel.
 
  


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