Re: Netscape upgrade

[cprice () ITS TO (Chris Price)]

    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