Firefox 1.5 exploit code released

Posted by tadelste on Dec 11, 2005 1:07 PM EDT
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Already Firefox 1.5, the latest incarnation of the popular alternative browser, has had exploit code released which takes advantage of a bug in the history.dat file, which stores information from Web sites users have visited. Basically, using an overly long topic of a page can cause the browser to crash each time it is started after going to such a page. According to the Internet Storm Center, it is not possible to start Firefox normally until the history.dat file is manually erased.

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This is pretty disappointing AnonymousCoward 0 1,114 Dec 11, 2005 2:22 PM

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