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Friday May 18th 2012

Posts Tagged ‘Firefox’

release::Firefox 6

Perhaps you haven't noticed the disturbing trend in the house of Mozilla where they have been releasing a new major release hot on the heals of the previous release. No sooner was Firefox 4 released then 5 hit the street. Now what seems mere months after the release of 5 we have 6 fresh off the presses.It seems as if they are playing the numbers [...]

Mac OS X buffer overflow vulnerability published

Earlier today SecurityReason released a proof of concept for the buffer overflow vulnerability found in libc gdtoa() function which is used by printf(). The index array overflow was first reported by researcher Maksymilian Arciemowicz last June. The advisory describes a flaw in the libc/gdtoa code in OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X, as [...]