Re: buffer overflow vulnerability in netscape 3.0 to 4.5

[tomaino () UNIXG UBC CA (Michael Tomaino)]

Paul Boehm wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 07:31:30PM +0200, I wrote:
> > Netscape is working on a patch.
>
> oh, and I almost forgot (in fact, i did):
> Netscape posted a workaround to their webpage that protects you against
> this specific overflow, but also prevents existing plugins from working.

Just to follow this up..  (I'm sure you all can probably read this
yourselves)

To quote more of the page :
"Setting this prompt will not impair your ability to view pages with
other plug-ins you already have installed and you will retain the
ability to manually download and install new plug-ins as you need them.
"

So there actually is no downside..

Mike.