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PwnZilla 5 Exploits IDN Link Buffer Overflow (MozillaZine)

PwnZilla 5 Exploits IDN Link Buffer Overflow (MozillaZine)

Posted Sep 22, 2005 22:11 UTC (Thu) by jwb (subscriber, #15467)
Parent article: PwnZilla 5 Exploits IDN Link Buffer Overflow (MozillaZine)

The article (and this one) fails to mention the work-around: go to URL about:config and disable network.enableIDN.


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PwnZilla 5 Exploits IDN Link Buffer Overflow (MozillaZine)

Posted Sep 23, 2005 0:06 UTC (Fri) by rm6990 (guest, #30921) [Link]

Or else upgrade to Firefox 1.0.7/Mozilla 1.7.12 :)

Both contain a patch for the problem.

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