[9939] in bugtraq
Re: Netscape upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Price)
Wed Mar 17 01:56:05 1999
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:01:21 -0600
Reply-To: Chris Price <cprice@ITS.TO>
From: Chris Price <cprice@ITS.TO>
X-To: youngk@TTC.COM
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
I downloaded and installed Netscape 4.51 and I can still run the Javascript
exploit that allows access to my harddrive...
Is it just me, or does anyone else see this as a gaping security hole for
Netscape 4.5x users......
Chris
Keith Young wrote:
> FYI...
>
> Netscape has released version 4.51 of Communicator. It seems to fix the
> window spoofing bug ( http://www.geek-girl.com/bugtraq/1999_1/0747.html ),
> along with the javascript bugs that can be used to read local files from
> your hard drive. I verifed this by trying the exploits at
> http://www.whitehats.com/guninski/netscape.html
>
> >From their release notes page (
> http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/4.5/relnotes/windows-4.51.html )
> "Fixes to improve security; in particular, the frame-spoofing
> vulnerability problem (
> http://home.netscape.com/products/security/resources/bugs/framespoofing.htm
> l )has been fixed"
>
> You can download version 4.51 at:
> http://www.netscape.com/download/
>
> --Keith Young
> -youngk@ttc.com
