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Firefox upgrade taken offline due to vulnerability

34 pointsby petenixeyover 12 years ago

6 comments

drcubeover 12 years ago
"The vulnerability could allow a malicious site to potentially determine which websites users have visited and have access to the URL or URL parameters"<p>"Firefox 16 itself fixed 14 vulnerabilities in version 15, including 11 that could allow attackers to install software without any user interaction beyond normal browsing."<p>Sounds like 16 is still less dangerous than the older version. Why are they telling people to downgrade?<p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/10/mozilla-pulls-day-old-firefox-16-from-download-site-over-security-risk/" rel="nofollow">http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/10/mozilla-pulls-day-ol...</a><p><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefo...</a>
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v21over 12 years ago
Poor Firefox. They do the right thing, and end up with a #1 Most Read on BBC News telling people that "Security fear sees Firefox pulled"
sergiotapiaover 12 years ago
Oh fuck, I need to follow instructions to downgrade? FFS. Nah, I don't care enough to downgrade.
epoover 12 years ago
20:24 UK time, Firefox updated to 16.0.1
mikeratcliffeover 12 years ago
Users had to manually upgrade to be using version 16 anyhow ... it was not yet set up for automatic updates.<p>A huge amount of news over nothing.
pyrotechnickover 12 years ago
Welcome to the Age of Aquarius.