Firefox.. whoops

raymor · 05-09-2005

The timeline on this bug is intersting to me.
A patch to fix it was avaliable within 6 hours
after the exploit was posted and within 18
hours people who had not patched were protected
by changes to the mozilla.org update server.
This shows the power of open source when compared
to the months or even years a certain proprietary
browser maker has taken to release security updates
after the exploits were public.

2005-05-07 16:26 PDT Original posting of vulnerability
2005-05-07 22:32 PDT Patch to fix it available through bugzilla
2005-05-08 09:57 PDT or earlier Mozilla.org adjusted to protect even users who had not patched Firefox.

05-09-2005	#1
raymor Members Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 42	The timeline on this bug is intersting to me. A patch to fix it was avaliable within 6 hours after the exploit was posted and within 18 hours people who had not patched were protected by changes to the mozilla.org update server. This shows the power of open source when compared to the months or even years a certain proprietary browser maker has taken to release security updates after the exploits were public. 2005-05-07 16:26 PDT Original posting of vulnerability 2005-05-07 22:32 PDT Patch to fix it available through bugzilla 2005-05-08 09:57 PDT or earlier Mozilla.org adjusted to protect even users who had not patched Firefox. __________________ Ray Morris support AT bettercgi.com Strongbox - The next generation in site security Throttlebox - The next generation in intelligent bandwidth control Clonebox - Backup (disaster recovery) on steroids Make money with your sig

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