For firefox users

[stevey]

Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and compromise a user's system.

1) The problem is that "IFRAME" JavaScript URLs are not properly protected from being executed in context of another URL in the history list. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an arbitrary site.

2) Input passed to the "IconURL" parameter in "InstallTrigger.install()" is not properly verified before being used. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with escalated privileges via a specially crafted JavaScript URL.

Successful exploitation requires that the site is allowed to install software (default sites are "update.mozilla.org" and "addons.mozilla.org").

A combination of vulnerability 1 and 2 can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

NOTE: Exploit code is publicly available.

The vulnerabilities have been confirmed in version 1.0.3. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Disable JavaScript.

 

[Kishin]

This sucks, Almostall my sites use Javascript,any idea when there will be a fix for this? I cant turn off javscript as it will really cause problems to how I run my sites.

 

[Theo]

The good news is that those vulnerabilities are very "exotic" and require a rare number of events to coincede. Also, the Mozilla team is quick in acknowledging and addressing them with updates/fixes. Compare this to Microsloth that can take months without as much as a hotfix.

 

[EGS]

The good news is that those vulnerabilities are very "exotic" and require a rare number of events to coincede. Also, the Mozilla team is quick in acknowledging and addressing them with updates/fixes. Compare this to Microsloth that can take months without as much as a hotfix.

lmao...Microsloth...haha never heard of that one before.

 

[Theo]

:-D

Regardless, I use Winblows.

 

[Stinos]

Thanks for the information. Although I keep using firefox. I'm sure they'll bring out a fix very soon?.

 

[Anthony Ng]

This sucks, Almostall my sites use Javascript,any idea when there will be a fix for this? I cant turn off javscript as it will really cause problems to how I run my sites.

Don't worry, people will disable Firefox rather than Javascript.

 

[dotcomgiant]

The cpmplete advisory with the steps to prevent the exploits ca nbe found at http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-42.html