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- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:09:41 PST
- From: Georgi Guninski <guninski@HOTMAIL.COM>
- To: BUGTRAQ@netspace.org
- Subject: Re: Netscape upgrade
-
- >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
- >
-
- Netscape Communicator is a great product. Sure, it has great security
- improvements. I like and use it. But it does not fix all of the exploits
- at http://www.whitehats.com/guninski/netscape.html. I have tested (NC
- 4.51 Win95) and had some reports that the exploit
- http://www.whitehats.com/guninski/nsfind.html (or
- http://www.nat.bg/~joro/nsfind.html) still works on Netscape
- Communicator 4.51. I would recommend still disabling JavaScript when
- browsing untrusted sites.
-
- Excuse me, if I am wrong.
-
- Regards,
- Georgi Guninski
-
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- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:01:21 -0600
- From: Chris Price <cprice@ITS.TO>
- To: BUGTRAQ@netspace.org
- Subject: Re: Netscape upgrade
-
- 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
-
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