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Firefox Also Vulnerable To .ANI Exploits
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Posted by Donster on: 2007-04-06 15:23:41 586
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Mozilla warns the animated cursor handling bug that's plagued Microsoft's Internet Explorer could cause trouble for Firefox users as well.
By Sharon Gaudin, InformationWeek
There had been some initial confusion as to whether the bug in Microsoft's Windows operating systems would affect Mozilla's open source Firefox browser. And now it appears it does, said Mike Schroepfer, VP of engineering for Mozilla.
"It turns out there is a path through which Firefox is executing that Windows code," said Schroepfer in an interview with InformationWeek. "It's in the way Firefox loads the animated cursors. It's a more obscure way for it to work."
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