[Gathnet] Windows Explorer security bug affects Firefox

Stuart D. Gathman stuart at gathman.org
Fri Jul 9 08:51:17 EDT 2004


This was supposed to have been fixed in XP service pack 1, but wasn't.  
Please upgrade Firefox to work around this, or else clicking on links
beginning with "shell:" will execute arbitrary programs.

http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/08/2327246&tid=78&tid=82

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	      Stuart D. Gathman <stuart at bmsi.com>
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