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Recently, Firefox’s attack surface has been getting bigger and bigger thanks to all of this junk that’s being included in it. Other unnecessary parts of Firefox, like Pocket and the advertisements shown on the default page, should be removed, too.

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It should be something that the user must install and enable on his or her own. That’s why something like pdf.js shouldn’t be provided by default.

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That’s why it’s important for Firefox to include as little software as possible. You would almost say that placing other people’s random code snippets on your web site for pennies on the dollar is a bad idea for your users.Īugat 5:30 Yes, software will have flaws. People install antiviruses when they need in priority an ad blocker (ex: the yahoo ads campaigns from a few days ago which was distributing malwares). The problem isn’t Flash, but advertising: you really should block ads, like all sane person do.

Yes, Thanks Adobe for all of the animated advertising provided by Flash. But it render my web site more faster than chrome. Now I hate that firefox does not have a Toggle Device Mode like Chrome. Input type date is one of the first thing that I hated about Firefox when I started to develop web pages, cause I was too noob for include a jquery date picker. That’s so wrong to say Flash doesn’t support Linux anymore: Adobe has updated Flash on Linux at the same time as Flash on Windows and OS X.

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– Firefox still hasn’t implemented “input type date”įlash doesn’t support Linux anymore, so, yeah, remove Flash and update Firefox is fine – Firefox still has its memory leaks since its first version Haha, came here for this: not disappointed! No he’s a troll, going for the cheap shot without contributing anything useful to the conversation. But many others before it took a lot of weeks to be fixed.Īugat 11:34 to understand you with Adobe IN YOUR MOUTH If only there were a long history of serious flash exploits to choose examples from Lying and saying “2 weeks” is a bit libelous, especially over a topic as serious as this.

#Firefox keeps prompting for critical updates Patch#

(1 day vs 2 weeks)Īdobe released their patch 2 days after the last major exploit was discovered. Though Mozilla is releasing and communicating a little bit faster than Adobe. Important is how fast Mozilla (and other browser developers) provide updates and communicate the security flaws. There is no browser without security flaws. – Me: “Uninstall Firefox, it has so many security flaws!” – Mozilla: “Disable Flash, it has so many security flaws!” Browse free.Ģ24 comments on “Firefox exploit found in the wild” People who use ad-blocking software may have been protected from this exploit depending on the software and specific filters being used. If you use Firefox on Windows or Linux it would be prudent to change any passwords and keys found in the above-mentioned files if you use the associated programs. The exploit leaves no trace it has been run on the local machine. Mac users are not targeted by this particular exploit but would not be immune should someone create a different payload. ssh configuration files and keys, configuration files for remina, Filezilla, and Psi+, text files with “pass” and “access” in the names, and any shell scripts. On Linux the exploit goes after the usual global configuration files like /etc/passwd, and then in all the user directories it can access it looks for. purple and Psi+ account information, and site configuration files from eight different popular FTP clients. On Windows the exploit looked for subversion, s3browser, and Filezilla configurations files. The files it was looking for were surprisingly developer focused for an exploit launched on a general audience news site, though of course we don’t know where else the malicious ad might have been deployed. This allowed it to search for and upload potentially sensitive local files.

The vulnerability does not enable the execution of arbitrary code but the exploit was able to inject a JavaScript payload into the local file context.

#Firefox keeps prompting for critical updates pdf#

Mozilla products that don’t contain the PDF Viewer, such as Firefox for Android, are not vulnerable. The vulnerability comes from the interaction of the mechanism that enforces JavaScript context separation (the “same origin policy”) and Firefox’s PDF Viewer. The fix has also been shipped in Firefox ESR 38.1.1. All Firefox users are urged to update to Firefox 39.0.3. This morning Mozilla released security updates that fix the vulnerability. Yesterday morning, August 5, a Firefox user informed us that an advertisement on a news site in Russia was serving a Firefox exploit that searched for sensitive files and uploaded them to a server that appears to be in Ukraine.