[81688] in Cypherpunks
Major Netscape Bug [CNN]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Thu Jun 12 21:44:37 1997
From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 19:39:23 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: users@EINSTEIN.ssz.com, austin-cpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Forwarded message:
> From Correspondent Steve Young
> June 12, 1997: 6:58 p.m. ET
>
> Netscape unveils Netcaster - April 15, 1997
>
> Princeton team finds third Netscape bug - May 20, 1996
>
> Netscape NEW YORK (CNNfn) - A serious new flaw that affects all
> versions of Netscape Communications Corp.'s popular Navigator Internet
> browser software -- including the final test version of its
> Communicator Suite released Wednesday -- has been uncovered by a
> Danish software firm, CNNfn has learned.
>
> The bug was reported by Cabocomm, a software company located about 100
> miles west of Copenhagen, Denmark. The bug makes it possible for
> Web-site operators to read anything stored on the hard drive of a PC
> logged on to the Web site.
