[Dailydave] Firefox bugs

Thor Larholm thor at polypath.com
Tue Oct 3 17:00:06 Local tim 2006


Their PoC, both the one in their slides and the full PoC, is nothing 
more than an out-of-memory crash, of which Firefox already has plenty. 
They were still struggling to write a working exploit days after the 
presentation, even though they claimed to have just that during the 
presentation.

Long story short, the bug is just a bug - not a vulnerability.


Regards
Thor Larholm


Dave Aitel wrote:

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>For those of you under a rock, there's a new firefox bug:
>http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/
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>I read somewhere that the PoC was posted to the web, but I can't find
>it anywhere.
>
>For those of you who watched the HP testemony on cspan.org, you may
>have noticed that ReadNotify was used in a prior DD posting. DD goes
>out to maybe 2500 people last time I checked...and I got under a
>hundred readnotify responses. This corresponds with my last use of web
>bugs against someone trying to blackmail one of my clients. It just
>didn't work. This was the one big tool in the FBI/NYPD's toolbox, and
>it's been broken during the fight against spammers. We had to do a
>statistical analysis of all the web page accesses to get close.
>
>Anyways, our congresscritters think that SPYWARE==WEB BUG. And it's
>not true. Someone needs to call them and explain it slowly.
>
>- -dave
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