Firefox upgrade taken offline due to vulnerability

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19909106

by petenixey • 14 years ago

34 7 14 years ago

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pyrotechnick• 14 years ago

Welcome to the Age of Aquarius.

sergiotapia• 14 years ago

Oh fuck, I need to follow instructions to downgrade? FFS. Nah, I don't care enough to downgrade.

v21• 14 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"

drcube• 14 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"

"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."

Sounds like 16 is still less dangerous than the older version. Why are they telling people to downgrade?

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/10/mozilla-pulls-day-ol...

http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefo...

khuey• 14 years ago

Because those 14 vulnerabilities are (presumably) not public, while the 1 vulnerability in 16 is.

mikeratcliffe• 14 years ago

Users had to manually upgrade to be using version 16 anyhow ... it was not yet set up for automatic updates.

A huge amount of news over nothing.

epo• 14 years ago

20:24 UK time, Firefox updated to 16.0.1

Firefox upgrade taken offline due to vulnerability

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